Re: Default placement of string number indication does not avoid sloping beam

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:39 Nick Payne wrote: > \version "2.13.31" > > \relative c'' { > a'16[ e c a e a] > } > > Nick Thank you, added as 1250: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1250 -- Dmytro O. Redchuk Bug Squad ___ lilypon

Re: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 01 Sep 2010, 23:29 Graham Percival wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:24:55PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: > > On 1 September 2010 22:51, Graham Percival wrote: > > > > > This looks like a harmless warning; I remember seeing it in 2003 > > > or 2004 or something like that.  I didn't find it

Re: segmentation fault with 2.13.32

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Sat 04 Sep 2010, 16:22 Paul Scott wrote: > I have reduced the problem to the presence of a \tempo command: > > \version "2.13.32" > > \score{ > << > \new StaffGroup << > \new Staff << > { > %The following line causes a segmentation fault > \tempo \markup\b

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > Please don't do this. We're not going to change anything, and I don't know why people keep on talking about changing the mailing list. If anybody wants to get something special in the subject line, their email client can add it for them.

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/09/10 01:14, Brett McCoy wrote: > Every other Linux based audio list I am on > pre-pends subjects with the list name. Why is this such a horrible > thing to do? > Because, like so many things, it's a nightmare when misused. You said you like to scan by subject. Fine. Just wait until *A*L*L*

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 05/09/10 21:46, Nick Payne wrote: On 05/09/10 09:33, Neil Puttock wrote: On 5 September 2010 00:07, Nick Payne wrote: I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour with a small example, but I'm getting some staves in a score where lilypond tries to fit too many bars and the stave goes pa

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 06 Sep 2010, 22:09 Nick Payne wrote: > this short example shows the problem with staves going off the > bottom of the page: > > %= > \version "2.13.32" > > %#(set-global-staff-size 24.5) > > \relative c'' { > \time 12/8 > \repeat unfold 64 { > \repeat u

Meterless typesetting help

2010-09-06 Thread Richie Gress
I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need help doing: * I need to engrave a score that has no time signature: I was thinking about entering the time signature in but having a universal command that will hide it whenever it changes. * I need to specify wh

Re: Meterless typesetting help

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Richie Gress wrote: > Could I have a little bit of help in doing these things, especially with the > rhythms I need? I appreciate it very much... The manuals should provide all the help you need; all those questions are clearly answered in there. - Graham ___

When was vspace introduced?

2010-09-06 Thread Christopher Meredith
I have been using latest stable (2.12.3) because that's what comes with Ubuntu. Everything's fine, except it doesn't appear to recognize vspace (I get compile errors). I installed 2.13.31 which does recognize vspace, but now I am having problems with placement of all my other objects (everything se

Re: Meterless typesetting help

2010-09-06 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 6 September 2010 15:29, Richie Gress wrote: > > I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need > help doing: Hi! > I need to engrave a score that has no time signature: I was thinking > about entering the time signature in but having a universal command > that will hide

Re: When was vspace introduced?

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-06 15:45, Christopher Meredith wrote: I have been using latest stable (2.12.3) because that's what comes with Ubuntu. Everything's fine, except it doesn't appear to recognize vspace (I get compile errors). I installed 2.13.31 which does recognize vspace, but now I am having problems wi

Re: Lilypond on IMSLP

2010-09-06 Thread craigbakalian
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 07:29 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Re: Lilypond on IMSLP Hi all, Since were on the topic of IMSLP, I just put up a piece for String Orchestra. The lilypond output is of topic is the Complete Full Score-> http://imslp.org/wiki/Running_with_Mr._Chakmakjian_

Re: Meterless typesetting help

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-06 15:50, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 6 September 2010 15:29, Richie Gress wrote: I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need help doing: I need to specify where I want the barlines to go. Use \cadenzaOn and explicit bar lines with \bar "|" . You'll prob

Re: Lilypond on IMSLP

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-06 16:04, craigbakalian wrote: http://imslp.org/wiki/Running_with_Mr._Chakmakjian_%28Bakalian,_Craig%29 On page 47 of the score, for some reason, the bass staff stretches down to the depths of the page. [...] So, does anyone know why page 47 of my score is beyond max-stretch? Hi, C

Re: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > I am very sorry, i can not find original post; anyway. > > Original poster, please, provide a minimal example. > > I've tried[1] those lines by Mark[2] with "no success" -- > i could not reproduce error message mentioned. > > I am sorry, very probably this is my fault. Pl

Re: Untrusted connection to LSR

2010-09-06 Thread Michael
Okay, thank you for the help. Regards, Michael Morales, thenewmikemo...@aol.com On 9/5/2010 11:56 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:36:31 -0700, Michael wrote: When trying to register for the LSR, Firefox gave be the "This Connection is Untrusted" warning, trying to connect to "l

Question about JEdit/LilyPondTool on Mac

2010-09-06 Thread Seth Williamson
I have been struggling with what looks like a real simple problem. That I can't find the answer is possibly due to my being relatively new with Macs. At any rate, below I copy a note I sent to the LilyPondTool list. If anybody on this list has the answer, I'd love to hear it. Seth Williamson

Re: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 06 Sep 2010, 08:47 Mark Polesky wrote: > Dmytro, > > Since the error is with the midi engine, you need to add a > \midi block to the \score (see below). :-) Thanks! Thanks to all of you, added as 1253: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1253 -- Dmytro O. Redchuk Bug S

Re: Question about JEdit/LilyPondTool on Mac

2010-09-06 Thread Philippe Massart
Hello, I think it's because when you install JEdit for the first time on a Mac, the path for Lilypond is set to "C:/Program Files/" etc. I think you just have to remove any path (first field). If it doesn't work, you can put this one, as your Lilypond app is located in the Applications folder

Re: When was vspace introduced?

2010-09-06 Thread -Eluze
Christopher Meredith wrote: > > I have been using latest stable (2.12.3) because that's what comes > with Ubuntu. Everything's fine, except it doesn't appear to recognize > vspace (I get compile errors). I installed 2.13.31 which does > recognize vspace, but now I am having problems with placem

MIDI file not being generated on windows. Not sure why.

2010-09-06 Thread Dejas Ninethousand
I followed the example shown here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-MIDI-files#Creating-MIDI-files to create: --- \version "2.10.33" \score { \header { title = "Exercise" } \new Staff { \time 4/4 << {g''4 4 g''4 4} \\ {f'8 f'8 r4 f'8

Re: MIDI file not being generated on windows. Not sure why.

2010-09-06 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 7 September 2010 00:09, Dejas Ninethousand wrote: > > I followed the example shown here: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-MIDI-files#Creating-MIDI-files > > to create: > > [...] > > However when I drag the .ly file onto the lilypond shortcut in windows > th

Re: MIDI file not being generated on windows. Not sure why.

2010-09-06 Thread Dejas Ninethousand
That fixed it! Thank you very much! On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On 7 September 2010 00:09, Dejas Ninethousand wrote: > > > > I followed the example shown here: > > > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-MIDI-files#Creating-MIDI-files

Before I clobber my LilyPond V-2.10...

2010-09-06 Thread PMA
Is LilyPond 2.12.2-1 (for Debian "squeeze") likely to work on Debian "Lenny"? Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-09-06 15:50, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 6 September 2010 15:29, Richie Gress wrote: I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need help doing: I need to specify

Re: Before I clobber my LilyPond V-2.10...

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-07 02:20, PMA wrote: Is LilyPond 2.12.2-1 (for Debian "squeeze") likely to work on Debian "Lenny"? Most probably: yes. You can also instantly start using 2.12.3 or even the unstable development version 2.13.32 (both from the lilypond.org website, not from the package archives). A

humber as easy note head

2010-09-06 Thread MING TSANG
I ran the following snippet and an error occurs (please refer to red text below)Please help. Numbers as easy note heads Easy notation note heads use the note-names property of the NoteHead object to determine what appears inside the note head. By overriding this property, it is possible to p

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread David Rogers
* Graham Percival [2010-09-06 11:33]: We're not going to change anything, and I don't know why people keep on talking about changing the mailing list. They do it because the vast majority of mailing lists to which they subscribe follow what have become the de facto accepted mailing list stand

Lilypond help for hire?

2010-09-06 Thread Karl Nelson
Does anyone out there do Lilypond consulting? I'm looking for someone to help with one or both of these: a) Formatting a few songs for publication. All of the entry and layout is done, but I'm having trouble getting things to look exactly how I'd like them to look. b) Entering a number of songs

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:10:59 -0700, David Rogers wrote: > * Graham Percival [2010-09-06 11:33]: > >>We're not going to change anything, and I don't know why people keep >>on talking about changing the mailing list. > > They do it because the vast majority of mailing lists to which they > subscr

Equivalent to 'Gap before Bar'

2010-09-06 Thread Marc Schonbrun
Hello, One element that I use quite often in Sibelius is 'Gap before Bar', which, unsurprisingly, places a gap before the bar you've selected. It's wonderful for writing books and examples where you want to have two columns of equally spaced single measures. What's the easiest way to do this in

Confusion about beaming

2010-09-06 Thread Marc Schonbrun
Hello, I was wondering about why the decision was made in the input syntax parser to view beaming groups as follows: } \relative { c8 d [e f g a b c] } The above snippet beams from the d through to the final c. At first glance, it would appear that the brackets are encasing the e through c,

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Marc" == Marc Schonbrun writes: Marc> Hello, I was wondering about why the decision was made in the Marc> input syntax parser to view beaming groups as follows: Marc> \relative { c8 d [e f g a b c] } Marc> The above snippet beams from the d through to the final c. At Marc> first glance,

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-06 Thread Marc Schonbrun
On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Michael wrote: > What I've normally done to make it clear is place the [ bracket directly > after the first d. See below. > > \relative c' { > c8 d[ e f g a b c] > } > > I feel this helps the clarity of the code, but this is what I do, I'm unsure > of anyone else.

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-06 Thread Marc Schonbrun
On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: >> "Marc" == Marc Schonbrun writes: > > Marc> Hello, I was wondering about why the decision was made in the > Marc> input syntax parser to view beaming groups as follows: > > > Marc> \relative { c8 d [e f g a b c] } > > Marc> The above snipp

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-06 Thread Michael
No problem. :) Regards, Michael Morales, thenewmikemo...@aol.com On 9/6/2010 10:06 PM, Marc Schonbrun wrote: On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Michael wrote: What I've normally done to make it clear is place the [ bracket directly after the first d. See below. \relative c' { c8 d[ e f g a b c]

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 06 Sep 2010, 19:10 David Rogers wrote: > making the list the default reply-to address, Still there is no obvious reason. This looks like holywar now, so, probably, shouldn't be discussed so much?.. I would suggest to create [another =:O] webpage with reasons why this must be done, because o