Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett writes: > On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter >> it does not exactly overwhelm. > > I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote > exactly what one is replying to. The poin

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-31 Thread Urs Liska
We'll think about this (and some more, when I'm back and we're ready with our current job ...). OK, Janek? Best Urs "Janek Warchoł" schrieb: >On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> There are also a few advantages [of using MuseScore]: >> >> a) MusicXML export means the resu

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 05/29/2012 04:22 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: The real issue is: Why is that warning supposed to be there in the first place? Shouldn't you be looking for a way to fix the underlying problem instead? Cheers, Reinhold Good point. The situation is this: the \sustainOn command is often includ

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Eluze
Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I could hide using "s" but the stem direction would have to be manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot of extra work just to avoid a warning. (Unless there is a better way

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze writes: > Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: >> >> I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I >> could hide using "s" but the stem direction would have to be >> manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot of extra work just to >> avoid a warning. >> >> (

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 05/31/2012 12:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Eluze writes: Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I could hide using "s" but the stem direction would have to be manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot of extra work

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
>>2012/5/30 Philip Thomas : >>(...) >> The problem: How do I get the Background Notes to sit happily where I >> want them on page 3? >>(...) > >From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com] >Sent: Wednesday 30 May 2012 23:40 > >Hi Philip, > >how about this setup? >It adds the "Backgr

Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances and I want them to match. Cheers, Philip

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas > Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics > hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary > text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances > and > I want them to match. > > I f

RE: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
>-Original Message- >From: Philip Thomas [mailto:philip.tho...@bluewin.ch] >Sent: Thursday 31 May 2012 12:53 >To: 'lilypond-user@gnu.org' >Subject: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph? > >Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics >hyphens? They seem, to my eye, t

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
From: Marek Klein [mailto:ma...@gregoriana.sk] Sent: Thursday 31 May 2012 13:08 To: Philip Thomas Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph? > Hello, >> 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas >> Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics >> hyphens? Th

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
>From: Marek Klein [mailto:ma...@gregoriana.sk] > >> Hello, > >>> 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas Can anyone tell me >>> which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics hyphens? They >>> seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary text >>> hyphens. I would like to add them manual

position of footer

2012-05-31 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, being on the list for only a few days has given me so many new ideas and input for improving my scores, that I like to send out my thanks for that first!!! Now to my latest question: I tweaked the footers in my files with: %% Einführung der Variable not-last-page #(define (no

Re: position of footer

2012-05-31 Thread -Eluze
Kai-48 wrote: > > > being on the list for only a few days has given me so many new ideas and > input for improving my scores, that I like to send out my thanks for that > first!!! > welcome! > Now to my latest question: I tweaked the footers in my files with: > > In the PDF the footer on

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-31 Thread Stjepan Horvat
What do you think about talking out the score in lilypond style..so you wouldnt have to switch eyes between screen and sheet..for example..: c 8 f 16 c 4 . ( d 8 d d | and than a script to fix it: c8 f16 c4. ( d8 d d | but i think that voice recognition is not well suported on linux..i think yo

besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: $which-side' the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side added-text) (integer? string?) #{\on

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry Prosser wrote: besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: $which-side' the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: > Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter > it does not exactly overwhelm. I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote exactly what one is replying to. > #1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > Lua with "separate statements with > semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is > procedural, not functional, And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There are some people who really like functional

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb David Kastrup: Henning Hraban Ramm writes: Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system); I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic. There’s a smiley. The LuaTeX team called itself lunatics

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing >> extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built >> internally too: almost every C++ data structure is manipulated and >> pas

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:18 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> You can't separate the two.  Developers grow from users.  Look at the >>> TeX/LaTeX and Emacs communities: how much of the changes happen in the >>> binary, how much in the interpretative layers?  Where did most >>> developers get their fi

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> Henning Hraban Ramm writes: >> >>> Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, >>> that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system); >> >> I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic. > > There’s a

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> >>> As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing >>> extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built >>> internally too: almost every C++ data s

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Choan Gálvez writes: > On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry Prosser wrote: > >> besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side >> added-text) (integer? string?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName >> #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text (markup >> #:put-adjacent 0

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser writes: > besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord > names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: > $which-side' > > the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 > > besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
Choan ... if you are scheme-illiterate, what does that make me ? Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why .. G On 31 May 2012 18:03, Choan Gálvez wrote: > On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry Prosser wrote: > >> be

[OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support"

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Just a quick name-dropping reminiscence here… =) > I don't think that the "last bugs" category can be > closed while Donald Knuth is alive In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference in San Francisco. Much to my surprise, at one of the other sessions I at

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
David ... thanks, and yes indeed. And I run convert-ly on every new score I create with denemo, so there really is no excuse for not engaging brain on this occasion 8-) Thanks for all the gentle admonishments from around the community . G On 31 May 2012 19:30, David Kastrup wrote: > Gerry

Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support"

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > > Just a quick name-dropping reminiscence here… =) > >> I don't think that the "last bugs" category can be >> closed while Donald Knuth is alive > > In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a > conference in San Francisco. Much to my surp

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser writes: > David ... thanks, and yes indeed. And I run convert-ly on every new > score I create with denemo, so there really is no excuse for not > engaging brain on this occasion 8-) > > Thanks for all the gentle admonishments from around the community > . Well, it is a frequen

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-31 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > We'll think about this (and some more, when I'm back and we're ready with our > current job ...). OK, Janek? ok ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser writes: > Choan ... if you are scheme-illiterate, what does that make me ?  > Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully > someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why .. G Actually, I was not able to explain the _previous_ behavior sat

Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support"

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, >> He seems like a wonderful man. > Yup. The TeX version numbering alone is sufficient proof! > Hermann Zapf was also amazing. One of my heroes! K. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/31 Philip Thomas : > Hi Harm, > > Once again you have been incredibly kind and helpful. > > Since writing to the forum yesterday, I had been experimenting with an added > Dynamics context to act as a kind of "skyhook" for the Background Notes. > That succeeded in placing the Notes beneath t

Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support"

2012-05-31 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Kieren MacMillan" To: "David Kastrup" > I don't think that the "last bugs" category can be > closed while Donald Knuth is alive In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference in San Francisco. Much to my surprise, at one of th

how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread info
Hi- please direct me to.. I can't find how to underline a single word in the lyrics I'd settle for italic if that's the only possibility but I couldn't find either in manual or repository. using stable version thanks jay ___ lilypond-u

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> Hi- please direct me to.. > I can't find how to underline a single word in the lyrics > I'd settle for italic if that's the only possibility but I couldn't find > either in manual or repository. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#vocal-music-formatting-lyrics-s

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hi Kieren- Yes that helps- but it isn't anywhere in the manual that I can find and even knowing what the snippet is called "Formatting lyrics syllables" doesn't produce a find and I had done a search through the pdf manual for underline and it showed different ways to use \underline but none of the

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jay, > but it isn't anywhere in the manual that I can find http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music > But we 'should' be able to use common words to find something

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Sorry but it's not in the v2.14 pdf manual. I looked there first - twice. I looked there after you wrote- I just did a search for \italic in that section and there's plenty of uses but none in lyric, a search for \markup {\italic also came up with nothing- the snippet you provided me a link to i