Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Phil Holmes
I wouldn't want to enter this as a bug without any code illustrating the problem. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: James Harkins To: lily-users Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 10:58 PM Subject: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system I ran into the at

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2013-08-04 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 02.08.2013 19:15, schrieb David Kastrup: Kieren MacMillan writes: Hi, Kieren reported inconsistent sizes depending on how the absolute font size was arrived at. Particularly when I used e.g., #(set-global-staff-size 25.5) Do you have a complete example showing the discrepancy? Hello D

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Helge Kruse
I have reproduced the behavior that James described. I hope this helps. Regards Helge \version "2.16.0" sopranoVoice = \relative c' { \repeat unfold 24 { r4 } r4 f f8 g4 f8 ~ | f1 \repeat unfold 24 { r4 } } verse = \lyricmode { in Ter -- re Haute. } \score { \new Staff { \sopranoVoic

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Eluze
James Harkins-2 wrote > I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead sheet. I > can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in the next > couple > of days. > > When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP (2.16.1) left aligns the > syllable > to the note, on the assum

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread Robert Honore
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:03:57 -0700 David Rogers wrote: Robert: It seems to me that you are working very hard to outsmart Lilypond, doing tricks that "should theoretically work if..." some particular obscure unreliable condition is met. David Rogers, let me assure you that I most certainly _DO

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Honore writes: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:03:57 -0700 David Rogers wrote: > >> Robert: It seems to me that you are working very hard to outsmart >> Lilypond, doing tricks that "should theoretically work if..." some >> particular obscure unreliable condition is met. > > David Rogers, let me a

Re: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-08-16 to 2013-08-20

2013-08-04 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Hi David, > > thank you for the organisation. > I could and should have written earlier, but unfortunately I can't > attend this meeting. > I really would love joining the discussions, and above all have the > opportunity to meet some of you in person. > But unfortunately it i

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread Robert Honore
On 02/08/2013 18:34, Federico Bruni wrote: 2013/8/2 Robert Honoré mailto:robert.hon...@gmail.com>> Please find attached lilypond_debug_log.txt and craptastic-1.ly . I can compile it on linux using version 2.16.2 I get a warning about encoding of file: craptast

Re:getting musical examples to an exact textwidth with a style file

2013-08-04 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
> > Have you looked at lilypond-book? That's likely the tool of choice > here, and it is not clear from your description that you are using it. > > -- > David Kastrup > Sorry for the delay in responding. Yes when I first started the project (a PhD thesis) I was using lilypond-book, but I abandon

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Robert Honore" To: Cc: "Urs Liska" ; "David Nalesnik" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:02 PM Subject: Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista? On 02/08/2013 18:34, Federico Bruni wrote: 2013/8/2 Robert Honoré mailto

Re: Re:getting musical examples to an exact textwidth with a style file

2013-08-04 Thread Phil Holmes
If you put the examples inside a \book block, you can specify system spacing with normal lilypond commands, and the images are kept together on the page. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Kevin Patrick Barry To: lilypond-user Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:38 PM Su

Re:getting musical examples to an exact textwidth with a style file

2013-08-04 Thread Urs Liska
Kevin Patrick Barry schrieb: >> >> Have you looked at lilypond-book? That's likely the tool of choice >> here, and it is not clear from your description that you are using >it. >> >> -- >> David Kastrup >> > >Sorry for the delay in responding. > >Yes when I first started the project (a PhD t

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread James Harkins
Eluze gmail.com> writes: > > > > However, the same thing happens at the end of a system, forcing the note > > column far to the left of where I would expect it to appear. > > see > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets-big-page#text-aligning- syllables-with-melisma > > "By defau

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread and...@andis59.se
>Initializing FontConfig... >Adding font directory: >C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf >Building font database...^C Maybe a stupid question but... Has the directory above been created? One of the "problems" with Vista is the UAC and you need to have sufficient righ

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "James Harkins" < jamshar...@gmail.com> To: Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system Eluze gmail.com> writes: > > However, the same thing happens at the end of a system, forcing the > note > colu

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread David Rogers
James Harkins writes: > I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead > sheet. I can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in > the next couple of days. > > When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP (2.16.1) left aligns the > syllable to the note, on the assumpti

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
and...@andis59.se wrote Sunday, August 04, 2013 8:28 PM > One of the "problems" with Vista is the UAC and you need to have > sufficient rights to write and create files and directories under > \Program Files. > > Have you tried to run Lilypond as Administrator? I don't think this should be ne

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Eluze
James Harkins-2 wrote > Eluze > > gmail.com> writes: > >> >> "By default, lyrics syllables that start a melisma are left aligned on >> their >> note. The alignment can be altered using the lyricMelismaAlignment >> property." > > In other words, if you want the left-alignment in the middle of

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Rogers wrote Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:14 PM > James Harkins writes: > >> I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead >> sheet. I can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in >> the next couple of days. >> >> When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP

Re: Re:getting musical examples to an exact textwidth with a style file

2013-08-04 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
> > ** > If you put the examples inside a \book block, you can specify system > spacing with normal lilypond commands, and the images are kept together on > the page. > I tried that and ended up with a full page example instead of a cropped system. Does using \book mean I have to manually set the