Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, On 19/12/2010 01:27, Ludo Beckers wrote: > I guess I asked this question because I'm not sure whether or not I > should first learn Lilypond syntax and then see if I want/need to use > tools besides it. My own experience of LilyPond was quite, no make that VERY frustrating to start with.

Re: Docs: automatic accidentals

2010-12-19 Thread James Lowe
Keith On 18/12/2010 23:56, Keith OHara wrote: > Would you consider editing what is below into a doc patch, James? > (I intend to offset my karma deficit with a doc patch for the new > Dynamics context.) > ~ Keith Sure, I'll take a look and make a patch soon. I currently have a Doc patch being

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread James Bailey
If you haven't already, I would suggest reading the learning manual through, so you have a basic understanding of how lilypond works. You may want to try and get one of the integrated environments (frescobaldi, denemo, jEdit +lilypondtool). You should, at that point, have enough knowledge to be

Re: ps to pdf conversion fails

2010-12-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, On 18/12/2010 15:40, Paul Thompson wrote: > If you use Ghostview, you can have a .pdf open continually, update it, > and thereby increase the speed of evaluation of fixes. Ghostview is a > much better .pdf viewer during development. For those on Mac OSX, the inbuilt PDF viewer 'Preview' a

moving Tie_engraver to Score

2010-12-19 Thread Juergen Ibelgaufts
Hello everybody, for some practical reasons I have to split my score into different voices in different variables, In order to tie two notes across these voices, I learned from this forum how to move the Tie_engraver from the voice context to the Staff context which works fine. My problem is that

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
I use Frescobaldi. Lilypondtool when I used Windows. Thomas Original-Nachricht Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain specific tool. Is the majority in this group using denemo, frescobaldi, lilypondtool or other tools?

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Jan Warchoł
hi, 2010/12/19 Ludo Beckers : > I guess I asked this question because I'm not sure whether or not I should > first learn Lilypond syntax and then see if I want/need to use tools besides > it. I recommend doing so. I'm not a very skilled user yet, but it appears certain to me that you'll better un

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
I usually work with Frescobaldi; sometimes, Lilypond Tool. Luca Il 18/12/2010 23:19, Ludo Beckers ha scritto: Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain specific tool. Is the majority in this group using denemo, frescobaldi, lilypondtool o

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 19 December 2010 10:32, Luca Rossetto Casel wrote: > > I usually work with Frescobaldi; sometimes, Lilypond Tool. Frescobaldi is a great tool! Its "score wizard" (Ctrl+Maj+N) is very useful for beginners, IMHO. Under Windows I use jEdit+LilyPondTool, really nice too. Sometimes I simply use ge

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Yes, Frescobaldi is a great tool! Also for advanced users! It made me change my main working system from Mac to Ubuntu. On my netbook, I sometimes use vim. My wishlist this christmas would be ;-) Frescobaldi or something comparable on Mac Git-Integration in Frescobaldi - well, using the console i

Re:ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Hajo Dezelski
I also use lilypondtool with jedit. Hajo --- ... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-12-19 10:30, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2010/12/19 Ludo Beckers: I guess I asked this question because I'm not sure whether or not I should first learn Lilypond syntax and then see if I want/need to use tools besides it. I recommend doing so. I'm not a very skilled user yet, but it appears cer

printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi, in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside"). So they had to first print on A4 sheets and then use them to print on A3 paper. Frankly speaking,

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Ludo Beckers
Frescobaldi was the first one I looked at, but asking questions on their Dutch forum (the developer is Dutch, so it seemed the most logical place) was in vain; no replies at all. After that I looked at Denemo, and their forum is very much alive. To get aquanited with Lilypond syntax I'll start usi

Re: How to define functions that generate music functions?

2010-12-19 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:35:32AM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 12/15/10 9:29 AM, "Juha Erkkila" wrote: > > Is it possible to define functions that generate music functions > > in Lilypond? I'm looking something to this effect: > > > > - > > \version "2.12.3" > > > > musicA = #(define-m

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Nils Gey
An important but unasked question is for what do you need notation? If it is "just" transcribing from paper the task is not that critical. You need to get "in" information you already know. But if you compose or arrange and you are not a conservative person who was taught to repeat the sentence "r

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-12-19 13:03, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside"). [...] I just want to be sure that my pdf is ok and u

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Ludo Beckers
That makes sense to me. In my case it's only 10% of arranging and composing. I read somewhere btw that there's an OpenOffice-tool as well; I'll have to check that one out for sure. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Nils Gey wrote: > An important but unasked question is for what do you need notat

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
I was dealing with a very similar situation recently. I wanted to find out how to make an A5 sized booklet and print it myself on A4 paper. There is a very small program (probably just a GS wrapper) called 'pdfbook' which allows you to rearrange the pages in a PDF. With the right options I was

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Ludo Beckers: > I guess I asked this question because I'm not sure whether or not I > should first learn Lilypond syntax and then see if I want/need to use > tools besides it. > > I asked about the combination vim-Lilypond sometime ago, but that would > be 2 steep learning curves to tackle at onc

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function with Carl and he gave me some advice: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.or

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Yes, Frescobaldi is a great tool! Also for advanced users! > It made me change my main working system from Mac to Ubuntu. > On my netbook, I sometimes use vim. > > My wishlist this christmas would be ;-) > Frescobaldi or something comparab

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 19.12.2010 um 20:13 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function with Carl and he gave me some advice: htt

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread jakob lund
I 2010/12/19 Marc Hohl : > Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: >> >> [...] >> Hi Marc, >> >> thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong >> with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function >> with Carl and he gave me some advice: >> htt

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/12/10 23:03, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside"). So they had to first print on A4 sheets and then use th

PDF output to Illustrator--non-LY fonts not appearing

2010-12-19 Thread Andrew C. Smith
I'm importing Illustrator into Lilypond I used past mailing list suggestions to convert the feta-alphabet fonts to ttf and drop them into the Library/Fonts folder. However, I have Lilypond write my text in a different font (Garamond) and use yet another font as "sans" for alternative accidental

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 19.12.2010 um 21:26 schrieb jakob lund: I 2010/12/19 Marc Hohl : Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function with Carl a

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello. On 19/12/2010 12:03, Federico Bruni wrote: > in a print shop I was told that they couldn't directly print my A4 .pdf > to A3 paper - using Adobe Reader - because in the pdf "pages are linked > two by two" (I guess they meant to say "twoside"). > > So they had to first print on A4 sheets and

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun, 20/12/2010 alle 07.43 +1100, Nick Payne ha scritto: > > I just want to be sure that my pdf is ok and understand why the shop > > failed to print directly to A3. > Adobe Reader has a booklet printing option. I use it frequently to > print > A4 to A3 and then fold to make an A4 bookle

source files of examples featured on the webpage

2010-12-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, where can i get the source code of the music fetured here http://lilypond.org/examples.html ? cheers, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: source files of examples featured on the webpage

2010-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:57:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: > > where can i get the source code of the music fetured here > http://lilypond.org/examples.html ? in git. Documentation/web/ly-examples/ No, they're not going to be click-through available. Before complaining, search the mailing

Re: source files of examples featured on the webpage

2010-12-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno dom, 19/12/2010 alle 23.57 +0100, Janek Warchoł ha scritto: > Hi, > > where can i get the source code of the music fetured here > http://lilypond.org/examples.html ? > here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/tree/Documentation/web/ly-examples ___

Re: How to print less measures to each system

2010-12-19 Thread Neil Puttock
On 17 December 2010 22:48, -Eluze wrote: > it still does not work - see attached pdf for > > \version "2.13.43" > \paper { systems-per-page = #9 } > \repeat unfold 50 { >  c d e f g a b c > } This has been broken since 2.13.31. Added here: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1460

Re: source files of examples featured on the webpage

2010-12-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2010/12/20 Graham Percival : > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:57:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> where can i get the source code of the music fetured here >> http://lilypond.org/examples.html ? > > in git.  Documentation/web/ly-examples/ 2010/12/20 Federico Bruni : > here: > http://git.savann

A quick way to change 50 lilypond files

2010-12-19 Thread hsweet
I had a bunch of band charts I needed to update. I wanted to assign each chart a number and give them all a midi tempo. Then every now and then I learn something new that I want to add. I dusted off an old Perl script, changed a few lines and I was able to automate the process. It reads all

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Michael
There's an OpenOffice tool. http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Mike Morales, lpmikemo...@aol.com On 12/19/2010 4:33 AM, Ludo Beckers wrote: That makes sense to me. In my case it's only 10% of arranging and composing. I read somewhere btw that there's an OpenOffice-tool as well; I'l

music engraving resources in the internet

2010-12-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, while i'm waiting for new Lilybuntu to be finished, i'd like to learn more about music engraving rules. I found lists of books on the subject in many places, but buying/lending these books would be difficult for me. Do you know any engraving resources in the internet? Until now i've found the

Re: music engraving resources in the internet

2010-12-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
2010/12/19 Janek Warchoł : > while i'm waiting for new Lilybuntu to be finished, i'd like to learn > more about music engraving rules. I found lists of books on the No need to wait. You can use it now. http://files.lilynet.net/ I recommend lilybuntu2.1.iso Jonathan -- Jonathan Kulp http://www

Re: music engraving resources in the internet

2010-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:45:38PM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > 2010/12/19 Janek Warchoł : > > while i'm waiting for new Lilybuntu to be finished, i'd like to learn > > more about music engraving rules. I found lists of books on the > > No need to wait. You can use it now. > > http://files.lilyn

Re: printing A4 pages on A3 paper

2010-12-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/12/10 09:44, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno lun, 20/12/2010 alle 07.43 +1100, Nick Payne ha scritto: I just want to be sure that my pdf is ok and understand why the shop failed to print directly to A3. Adobe Reader has a booklet printing option. I use it frequently to print A4 to A3 and

Re: A quick way to change 50 lilypond files

2010-12-19 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from hsweet's message of Mon Dec 20 02:05:06 +0100 2010: > I had a bunch of band charts I needed to update. Let me remind you that editors such as Vim or jedit have macro recording. Depending on the task this can be even faster if you use the editors search/ grep features and then the mac

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Ludo Beckers writes: > Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users > work with a certain specific tool. GNU/Emacs with LilyPond mode. Home grown library of templates that I was willing to share but LSR cannot handle a collection of files. I have a small script that