Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander Kobel: > today at the train station I stumbled across the German LinuxUser > magazine, featuring an article about music engraving. I found myself > surprised and happy, seeing LilyPond mentioned in the first place Thanks for

Png image files are always 859x1111

2009-09-22 Thread Johan Hoogenboezem
Hi Everyone I've been experimenting with Lilypond to see how I might project music with an overhead projector for sing-alongs. While playing with the png format option I noticed that the png image is always cropped to be 859x pixels (which corresponds the "Letter" size, I believe). I say "cr

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 01:09, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Currently Lilypond's transposition is tonal only, with the 'smart transpose' snippet providing a Scheme function to minimise accidental use. Unfortunately this function is incompatible with quarter-tone notation. Discussing with Graham Breed, I

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hans Aberg wrote: >> What you see is that >> >> (i) without naturalizeMusic, transposition fails: transposition alone >> leaves the final pitch being 'g+5/4' which has no accidental > > I think is just a bug. Somehow the sharp drops out. It's not so much a bug as a notational impossibilit

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 11:16, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Hans Aberg wrote: What you see is that (i) without naturalizeMusic, transposition fails: transposition alone leaves the final pitch being 'g+5/4' which has no accidental I think is just a bug. Somehow the sharp drops out. It's not

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Federico Bruni
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander Kobel: today at the train station I stumbled across the German LinuxUser magazine, featuring an article about music engraving. I found myself surprised and happy, seeing LilyPond mentioned in the fi

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hans Aberg wrote: > The correct accidental is a # plus a !/4. It then does not change the > scale degree. This will also be correct in if the sharp and microtonal > accents are relative a tuning system other than E12. No, it's a DOUBLE-sharp plus a 1/4, which quite obviously does not exist. > In

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:40:59AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander > Kobel: > > > today at the train station I stumbled across the German LinuxUser > > magazine, featuring an article about music engraving. I found myself >

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/22 Federico Bruni : >>     http://www.linux-user.de/Downloads/LUCE/2009/lu-ce_2009-10.pdf >> > > The article about lilypond is not there. > It should be at page 46, but this pdf is only 34 pages.. It is, just search for "LilyPond", page 46 is at page "17 of 24" of the PDF > This is the cor

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:46:32AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> Thanks for mentioning this. I found it can be downloaded from >> >> http://www.linux-user.de/Downloads/LUCE/2009/lu-ce_2009-10.pdf >> >> Any volunteers for adding this to web/publications? >> > > The

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 22-09-2009 om 11:46 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Federico Bruni: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander > > Kobel: > > > > Thanks for mentioning this. I found it can be downloaded from > > > > http://www.linux-user.d

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Federico Bruni
Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/9/22 Federico Bruni : � � http://www.linux-user.de/Downloads/LUCE/2009/lu-ce_2009-10.pdf The article about lilypond is not there. It should be at page 46, but this pdf is only 34 pages.. It is, just search for "LilyPond", page 46 is at page "17 of 24" of the PDF

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 22-09-2009 om 11:12 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Graham Percival: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:40:59AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander > > Kobel: > > Added to Documentation/general/community.itexi Thanks! > No

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2009/9/21 Alexander Kobel : > Und für "das täglich Brot" eines Chor- oder Orchesterleiters - > einfache, vierstimmige Chorsätze und Stimmenauszüge für einzelne > Instrumente - ist LilyPond schon für Fast-Neueinsteiger das schnellste > Programm, dass ich bisher gesehen habe. Kein Griff zur Maus ist

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 11:49, Joseph Wakeling wrote: The correct accidental is a # plus a !/4. It then does not change the scale degree. This will also be correct in if the sharp and microtonal accents are relative a tuning system other than E12. No, it's a DOUBLE-sharp plus a 1/4, ... Yes, s

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander Kobel: > Spätestens beim Schlusswort des Autors befiel mich jedoch das kalte > Grausen ob der Recherche: "wenn [...] Sie einzelne Stimmen > transponieren wollen, ist hier Neuschreiben angesagt[.]" Mitnichten! > \transpose c d

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: and at least in my installation of 1.13 there's no german.ly (must investigate further...) No, but there is a deutch.ly, so \include "deutch.ly" is probably what Alexander had in mind. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Hesprich
Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb: > and at least in my installation of 1.13 there's no german.ly (must > investigate further...) Try "deutsch.ly" :-) Ole ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hans Aberg wrote: > I think LilyPond, once it has found the correct scale degree, computes > the interval offset. As there is none for this particular offset, it > typesets nothing. It should report at least a warning, though. The value > stored inside should though be correct. Yes, I think this i

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kobel
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Thank you for the effort! The letter looks good, but I'd leave out the MIDI input (even if someone's working on midi2ly again), Hm. Good point. It's not quite in the core... and at least in my installation of 1.13 there's no german.ly (must investigate further...) Fo

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> > > Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > and at least in my installation > > of 1.13 there's no german.ly (must investigate further...) > > > No, but there is a deutch.ly, so > \include "deutch.ly" > is probably what Alexander had in mind. > > /Mats should be "deutsch.ly" Thomas > > _

Re: Article in German LinuxUser magazine

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kobel
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op maandag 21-09-2009 om 22:47 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander Kobel: Spätestens beim Schlusswort des Autors befiel mich jedoch das kalte Grausen ob der Recherche: "wenn [...] Sie einzelne Stimmen transponieren wollen, ist hier Neuschreiben angesagt[.]" Mitnich

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 13:44, Joseph Wakeling wrote: So I think you need to add a choice of glyph. LilyPond is too primitive to treat # and b and other accidentals as operators acting on all intervals. Well, the point is that a glyph for 5/4 sharp is nonsensical. A contemporary music player wou

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/21/09 5:09 PM, "Joseph Wakeling" wrote: > As I mentioned a little while back, I'm working on a specialist notation > section on contemporary music for the Notation Reference. And, as I > also mentioned, I'm going to be trying to implement and/or motivate some > feature development to sup

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 15:00, Carl Sorensen wrote: If you get the chromatic transposition working properly, I'll commit to helping you get it embedded in LilyPond. My impression is that this works properly, only that LilyPond does not have the capacity to treat # and b as operators that can be

Re: Png image files are always 859x1111

2009-09-22 Thread Stephen Corey
Hello, I typeset music weekly for display using Powerpoint. I'm attaching the template I use. Once I have all the page breaks set the way I want, I run lilypond in terminal (Linux) to generate the final png images. lilypond -fpng -dresolution=300 filename.ly The resolution doesn't need to

Re: Png image files are always 859x1111

2009-09-22 Thread Stephen Corey
Stephen Corey wrote: Hello, I typeset music weekly for display using Powerpoint. I'm attaching the template I use. Once I have all the page breaks set the way I want, I run lilypond in terminal (Linux) to generate the final png images. lilypond -fpng -dresolution=300 filename.ly The resol

Re: Png image files are always 859x1111

2009-09-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/22 Stephen Corey : >  You can get a different > scale by changing > > #(set-global-staff-size 40) > > to whatever size works best for you. For various reasons, this does not give the same appearance as an enlarged size of 20. I'd use always a big resolution instead, if necessary. -- Franc

\RemoveEmptyStaffContext and cross-staff beams

2009-09-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, In the following code, the beam goes between the staves when \RemoveEmptyStaffContext is commented out but goes above the top staff when it's used. This means you have to explicitly state all the stem directions to get the beam to go in the middle of the staves when using \Remov

Re: Png image files are always 859x1111

2009-09-22 Thread Johan Hoogenboezem
Hi Stephen Thanks a lot for your prompt and detailed reply. Your example certainly makes it look better. The dimensions are now 2550x3300 instead of 859x. Should it have been 1024x768? Thanks again Johan Hoogenboezem Gauteng, South Africa ___ lilyp