Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Indeed, inspiring. Remembers me of a museum in Kopenhagen (mmmhh, forgot the name) I once visited where they have a small exhibition of these tools. Impressing. I was a little upset when I read "they decided to disperse the collection", but it is true, I've contacted them and you can indeed

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/14 Wim van Dommelen : > I was a little upset when I read "they decided to disperse the collection", > but it is true, I've contacted them and you can indeed buy a random plate, I seem to remember having heard that Henle now uses Sibelius. If that's true, well, further Sibelius-development

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/2/14 Wim van Dommelen : > >> I was a little upset when I read "they decided to disperse the >> collection", >> but it is true, I've contacted them and you can indeed buy a random plate, > > I seem to remember having heard that Henle now uses Sibelius. > If that's true

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/2/10 Joseph Rushton Wakeling : > On 02/10/2013 05:21 PM, Luca Rossetto Casel wrote: >> >> Another one, >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uPPJj_M_o > > > Does anyone know anything about the computer engraving software shown in > this second video? I don't recognize it, but it's striking how

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Il 14/02/2013 13:36, David Kastrup ha scritto: For commercial viability, LilyPond is lacking two mechanisms: a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well. I

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well. The really simple way of putting this: "It needs to be as easy as

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go >> away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that >> Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well. > > The really simple way

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/14/2013 04:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Uh, they fired the original developers and their team without much of a migration strategy. It is unlikely that substantial new developments are planned, or this would have been an economically stupid course. I'm not saying it was a smart thing to d

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 16:05, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well. The really

Re: measures per system

2013-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi all, Kieren's use of this engraver with a "real-world" example has alerted me to a problem with it--namely, that it doesn't accommodate instances where the user sets the starting bar number. I've attached a fix. Best, David bars per line systems per page engraver.ly Description: Binary data

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/14/2013 04:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: While it may not seem to be intuitive you can actually write extremely robust "house style" sheets (or rather libraries which I find much more reliable than any preset templates or whatever you could use with WYSIWYG software. With the additional advantage

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 17:21, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 02/14/2013 04:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: While it may not seem to be intuitive you can actually write extremely robust "house style" sheets (or rather libraries which I find much more reliable than any preset templates or whatever you could

Re: measures per system

2013-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi all, > > Kieren's use of this engraver with a "real-world" example has alerted me > to a problem with it--namely, that it doesn't accommodate instances where > the user sets the starting bar number. > > I've attached a fix. > > Arghh!!

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/14/2013 05:32 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Maybe I'll get in touch with you before. I already intended to present the outline of the presentation here and ask for feedback - I think it's an issue that concerns many of us ... (The presentation is due at the end of April, so it will be some time stil

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 17:50, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 02/14/2013 05:32 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Maybe I'll get in touch with you before. I already intended to present the outline of the presentation here and ask for feedback - I think it's an issue that concerns many of us ... (The presentation

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 18:05, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi all, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: I will soon pick up on that communication, and then I'll surely raise the engraving issue, showing them some of my 'raw' scores, Janek's beautiful final versions and maybe some exemplary git c

Overlapping brackets

2013-02-14 Thread Aleksandr Andreev
Hello list members! I noticed from the documentation that analysis brackets cannot overlap. Is there some other way one could produce a graphic such as this one? http://www.ponomar.net/files/arnoldt.png Thanks! Alekandr ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Overlapping brackets

2013-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
Aleksandr Andreev writes: > Hello list members! > > I noticed from the documentation that analysis brackets cannot > overlap. Is there some other way one could produce a graphic such as > this one? > > http://www.ponomar.net/files/arnoldt.png Make a separate Voice context for every bracket? And

Re: Overlapping brackets

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 20:47, schrieb Aleksandr Andreev: Hello list members! I noticed from the documentation that analysis brackets cannot overlap. Is there some other way one could produce a graphic such as this one? http://www.ponomar.net/files/arnoldt.png I didn't check this, but I assume that if yo

Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, maybe it's an academic question, but maybe it also triggers the curiosity of some Scheme-hackers ;-) Is it possible to write something (probably a Scheme function) that lets LilyPond compile a file twice with a different file included or a different command line option? Or is it pos

do-do-do-do-do-dots

2013-02-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, I can't believe that the number of dots is correct in this chord :-) \relative c' { 2. } Does Gould or someone else have a rule for that? Or does someone probably know a piano score which contains similar chords? I think that dots which have too large a distance from the top o

glissando over several notes

2013-02-14 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I've expected a straight glissando from c to g in the below quoted example. Unfortunately, there is no glissando! How can I achieve what I want? And: isn't there an easier way to get a glissando over a longer passage, something like a textspanner? %% SNIPPET goongliss = { \once \ove

Re: do-do-do-do-do-dots

2013-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Werner, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Folks, > > > I can't believe that the number of dots is correct in this chord :-) > > \relative c' { > 2. > } > > Does Gould or someone else have a rule for that? Or does someone > probably know a piano score which conta

Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
I'll just throw it out there that I'm broke after planning my wedding and honeymoon in April (woohoo!) but have wanted to buy Behind Bars for some time. If anyone feels like buying it for me for a wedding present, it'd get a special spot in our new Ikea library! We'd even name a shelf after you!

Re: glissando over several notes

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/14 Stefan Thomas : > Dear community, > I've expected a straight glissando from c to g in the below quoted example. > Unfortunately, there is no glissando! > How can I achieve what I want? I wouldn't use \once with 'glissando-skip. Try: \version "2.16.1" goGliss = \override NoteColumn #'g

Re: do-do-do-do-do-dots

2013-02-14 Thread Shane Brandes
Found the example Let us learn. [image: Inline image 1] On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Folks, > > > I can't believe that the number of dots is correct in this chord :-) > > \relative c' { > 2. > } > > Does Gould or someone else have a rule for that? Or does s

Re: do-do-do-do-do-dots

2013-02-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Gould has a rule for these. She says (p. 56) that in cases where a > dot would need to be two or more staff spaces away from the chord, > you only need to use enough dots to cover the number of spaces taken > up by the chord. Thanks, entered as issue #3179. Werner __

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:48:37PM +0100, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > I'll just throw it out there that I'm broke after planning my wedding and > honeymoon in April (woohoo!) but have wanted to buy Behind Bars for some > time. If anyone feels like buying it for me for a wedding present, it'd ge

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread Phil Holmes
I'd be more than happy to. To avoid you getting thirty copies, please everyone note that I'm happy to do this. Mike - please let me know (privately) a delivery address. You might be interested to know my current reading: http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Performing-Pitch-The-Story/dp/081084185

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 14 févr. 2013, at 23:19, Graham Percival wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:48:37PM +0100, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: >> I'll just throw it out there that I'm broke after planning my wedding and >> honeymoon in April (woohoo!) but have wanted to buy Behind Bars for some >> time. If anyone

Temporarily removing bracket from staff groups

2013-02-14 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
I am working on a composition for my music theory professor. He wants a particular layout for the work. Here is what I have thus far: http://pastebin.com/UXv30Ux2 I want to know if it is possible to remove the bracket between the third and fourth staffs, the blank ones? I tried setting 3 differen

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
"m...@mikesolomon.org" writes: > I'll just throw it out there that I'm broke after planning my wedding > and honeymoon in April (woohoo!) but have wanted to buy Behind Bars > for some time. If anyone feels like buying it for me for a wedding > present, it'd get a special spot in our new Ikea libr

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> "Behind Bars" sounds eminently fitting for a wedding present. Now > you just need someone contribute the "LaTeX companion", and you'll > have guests whispering for weeks. Hehe. Recently I've read that someone wondered why the access to his typographical blog increased dramatically... The tit

Re: Behind Bars

2013-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> "Behind Bars" sounds eminently fitting for a wedding present. Now >> you just need someone contribute the "LaTeX companion", and you'll >> have guests whispering for weeks. > > Hehe. Recently I've read that someone wondered why the access to his > typographical blog in