Re: Problem, probably with Lilypondtool

2009-12-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 16/12/2009 21:35, Nick Payne ha scritto: When I use jEdit/Lilypondtool on Linux, about one time in four or five that I run Lilypond from the LPT toolbar, Lilypondtool doesn't recognise when Lilypond has finished processing, doesn't return with the "Lilypond ready" prompt in the console window

Re: different style of barline in-between staves

2009-12-17 Thread Robin Bannister
David Nalesnik wrote: I want [...] a dashed barline between the staves, while retaining a solid barline within the individual lines. Add the following to your \layout{\context{\Score block: \override SpanBar #'glyph-name = #"dashed" Cheers, Robin

Re: No Work!

2009-12-17 Thread Rutger Hofman
Tim McNamara wrote: On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:55 AM, John Mandereau wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 20:20 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : Wouldn't it be simplest to set the Reply-To header to the list? Then all replies go to the list by default. No. For good reasons about this, see http://ww

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Yes, but the concern here is to bundle something along with LilyPond. I don't think that's a very good idea though. We shouldn't bundle unmaintained (that's a fact) broken (fact) editors. I think we should make LilyPondTool and Frescobaldi officially recommended and provide them as bundle downl

Re: Problem, probably with Lilypondtool

2009-12-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
In the next release (planned to release this week), I worked on this part, so keep in touch, perhaps this will be fixed. Nick Payne wrote: When I use jEdit/Lilypondtool on Linux, about one time in four or five that I run Lilypond from the LPT toolbar, Lilypondtool doesn't recognise when Lilypo

Re: No Work!

2009-12-17 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 à 18:56 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : > I don't buy the generalized Unix notion that "doing things the hard > way is a virtue." Where do you get this notion from? Note that the most popular operating systems except Microsoft ones are Unix-based. It's not doing thin

Re: No Work!

2009-12-17 Thread James Lowe
Robert, Don't worry, we all want this to work for you :) The simple fact is that the latest version of Lilypond (2.13.x) should simply be able to be dragged to your desktop or application folder and you can double click it and you get the welcome screen. There is no need at all that you shou

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > I would like to see options on the download page: > - Download LilyPond with LilyPondTool (needs Java installed) > - Download LilyPond with Frescobaldi (Linux only) > - Download LilyPond without an editor That would be veeer

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) > wrote: >> I would like to see options on the download page: >> - Download LilyPond with LilyPondTool (needs Java installed) >> - Download LilyPond with Frescobaldi (Linux

Re: No Work! 10.5.8 vs. 10.4.11

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
So i do not think the problem is with you at all. Thanks. I was beginning to wonder... Indeed you are able to get this working on an external disk - which makes no real sense to me, only because if it works on an external disk it should work on an internal disk, the operating system is the

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: > 2009/12/16 Stefan Thomas : > > I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the > > computer in my music-school. > > It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't > > work on it. > > On my WinX

Re: No Work! 10.5.8 vs. 10.4.11

2009-12-17 Thread James Bailey
On 17.12.2009, at 18:22, Robert Ley wrote: So i do not think the problem is with you at all. The console shows this message: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:05:46 AM US/Pacific Dec 17 09:06:44 rdlpowerbook LilyPond[231]: 'exceptions.OSError'>: [Errno 86] Bad CPU type in executable You've do

Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Tom Dickson
I noticed in the digest someone talking about Lilypond for Mac working on an external disk but not on the internal one - it is possible that they are formatted differently. The Mac offers various filesystems, some of which are case insensitive and some which are not! It may be informative to check

clarinet tab?

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Thornock
Hi all, Is the clarinet tablature posted to the LSR working? I don't see the usual graphic on LSR, and I can't get it to work on my machine: GNU LilyPond 2.12.1 Processing `tabtest.ly' Parsing... tabtest.ly:3:27: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \markup \clarTab ##

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL has a different system, 10.4.11, under which LilyPond

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Robert Ley wrote: The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL has

Re: clarinet tab?

2009-12-17 Thread kristof lauwers
hi, for me it's working. in the line below, a closing bracket is missing in the end. maybe that's the problem? \markup \clarTab ##t #'() # '(("Rlittle" . "") ("Llittle" . "") greetings, Kristof At 18:56 2009-12-17, you wrote: Hi all, Is the clarinet tablature

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ley
Yup. I don't know enough about using a Terminal program or anything else to get LilyPond to run without using the GUI. I need the GUI and that's what doesn't work. RDL ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: clarinet tab?

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Thornock
Thanks Kristof for the reply. I found one big clue to the problem: findfont fails trying to find some Japanese font or something. A postscript file is produced without errors, but ps2pdf fails with findfont. I have to run: ps2pdf -dNOSAFER file.ly to produce the pdf. Does anybody know anythin

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Kees van den Doel
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:00 am Subject: Re: GUI To: Valentin Villenave Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) > >

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel wrote: > > From: Graham Percival >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave >> No.  The alternate input page is extremely easy to find. >> "recommended" editors are right at the top of that page. > > Of course, most people do not know

horizontal alignment of dynamics attached to skips

2009-12-17 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
With the new Dynamics context for PianoStaff, the recommended way is to attach the dynamics to skips in the Dynamics context... Unfortunately, dynamics attached to a skip and dynamics attached to actual notes are differently aligned: s\p results in the \p being far further to the left than in c\

Re: No Work! 10.5.8 vs. 10.4.11

2009-12-17 Thread James Bailey
The 'correct' version for system 10.5.8 on a PPC chip should be the PPC binary. The direct link to the 2.13.9 binary is here: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/darwin-ppc/ lilypond-2.13.9-1.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2 On 17.12.2009, at 19:04, Robert Ley wrote: The 'correct' version for

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Kees van den Doel
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:48 pm Subject: Re: GUI To: Kees van den Doel Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel > wrote: > > > > From: Graham Percival > >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Va

Re: different style of barline in-between staves

2009-12-17 Thread David Nalesnik
Thank you, Robin--problem solved! On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: > David Nalesnik wrote: > >> I want [...] a dashed barline between the staves, while retaining a >> solid barline within the individual lines. >> > > Add the following to your \layout{\context{\Score bloc

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel wrote: From: Graham Percival On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave No. The alternate input page is extremely easy to find. "recommended" editors are right at the top of th

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:47:49PM -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel >> wrote: >>> Of course, most people do not know what an "editor" is, except >>> as some guy that puts articles in newpaper

RE: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Ed Ardzinski
All interesting comments - way back when I first encountered Lilypond (3 years ago or so?) I just decided to write my own editor and stuff it full of commands to enter code fragments I find useful (and some other things - open Acrobat Reader, call LP on a file, a few other things). Every few m

padding at top of first page

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
How do I remove it such that each page begins at same top-left corner? --hsm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
Given what is out there in open source land for MFC capable programmers, I have to admit to the DIY vice myself. However when I wake up and realize that I don't particularly want to be 'there', I'm thankful for the editor I use most--- EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/index.html It has everything I

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread bhaaluu
Dear Stefan, Familiarity is the keyword when it comes to text editors. They shouldn't have to climb a steep learning curve for a text editor in addition to learning all the nuances for lilypond. Encourage them to use the text editor that they are familiar with. After all, 'simple' means a plain te

Re: Lilypond Right to Left

2009-12-17 Thread Patrick McCarty
2009/2/22 Fr. Michael Gilmary : > >> 2009/2/20 Fr. Michael Gilmary : >> >>> >>> Is there any development in Lilypond for typesetting the music and lyrics >>> from >>> right to left? We would use it for setting some Syriac hymns. >>> > >> Valentin Villenave wrote: >> Surprisingly enough, it is not (

restraining lilypond

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
Given: \version "2.13.7" \header { tagline = ##f } \layout { \context { \Staff \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } } \paper{ indent = 0\mm paper-width = 3\in line-width = 1.5\in paper-height = 5\in print-page-number = ##f } \relative c'{ \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
> Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:57:27 + > From: Graham Percival > Subject: Re: GUI > To: Tim McNamara > Cc: lilypond-user > Message-ID: <20091217235727.ga13...@sapphire> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [...] > I invite people -- I've *been* inviting people for months

Re: restraining lilypond

2009-12-17 Thread James Bailey
I only noticed this because I'm checking the regression tests, but I think page-top-space is the setting you would need. You can find an example of its use it in the regression tests. On 18.12.2009, at 03:54, Hugh Myers wrote: Given: \version "2.13.7" \header { tagline = ##f } \layout {

Re: restraining lilypond

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
Thanks James, I'll give it a go. --hsm On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, James Bailey wrote: > I only noticed this because I'm checking the regression tests, but I think > page-top-space is the setting you would need. > You can find an example of its use it in the regression tests. > > On 18.12

Re: restraining lilypond

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
Adding page-top-space = 0\mm to \paper doesn't seem to make any difference. Perhaps my incantation is incorrect? --hsm On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Hugh Myers wrote: > Thanks James, > > I'll give it a go. > > --hsm > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, James Bailey > wrote: >> I only notic