Writing a fingering chart for French Horn

2013-08-17 Thread Tommaso Gordini
Hello to all, this is my first post on lilypond-user. I'm translating a practical guide to French horn and I have a problem that I could not solve. I have to write a French Horn fingering card. Many notes admit alternative combinations, and they are written one below the other. Below I attack the

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 129, Issue 72

2013-08-17 Thread Mats Behre
On 2013-08-16 22:28, Philippe wrote: David Kastrup wrote >Actually, this works fine with Emacs and a number of PDF viewers as >well. Regarding the use of others editors with point-and-click, it doesn't work out of the box with emacs or vi (and skim a previewer) on a mac (even if I tried to..

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-17 Thread Robin Newman
I too am trying to get Frescobadi working on my Mac. I have reached the stage of of managing to compile and install the python-poppler-qt4 library, so I now have lilypond compilation and dfp display working in Frescobaldi. I have followed the installation instructions of Philippe Massart as regard

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 129, Issue 72

2013-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
Mats Behre writes: > On 2013-08-16 22:28, Philippe wrote: > >> David Kastrup wrote >>> >Actually, this works fine with Emacs and a number of PDF viewers as >>> >well. >> Regarding the use of others editors with point-and-click, it doesn't work >> out of the box with emacs or vi (and skim a previe

Re: SMuFL

2013-08-17 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, a short comment: 2013/8/11 David Kastrup : > Werner LEMBERG writes: > >>> I think "so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can >>> understand how it works" still can't qualify as "in effect >>> proprietary". >> >> It is not *that* badly documented. However, the number of people

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi robin, I just had the exact same problems. Solved them by going into the preference folder of my system and ditching all frescobaldi related prefs & plists. Some could not be deleted though. After that, no problems anymore. Of course you need to set all preferences new, but Best, Ro

Re: SMuFL

2013-08-17 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi folks, 2013/8/9 Urs Liska : > Hi all, > > although I suspect this could once more become a longish and scattered > thread, I feel forced to bring it up here. > > What do you think: would it make sense to open up LilyPond thinking to the > idea of SMuFL brought up by Steinberg and Daniel Spreadb

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-17 Thread rbn
Thanks Robert That sorted it! Robin On 17 Aug 2013, at 15:10, Robert Schmaus wrote: > Hi robin, > > I just had the exact same problems. Solved them by going into the preference > folder of my system and ditching all frescobaldi related prefs & plists. Some > could not be deleted though. >

How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, is there any easy way to limit customized graceSettings to Voice? While using $(add-grace-property ...), any further setting of it will override the former. It is possible to rebuild and use the whole list (as I did in the third Staff below), though that's tedious. -Harm Example: \versio

Re: How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > is there any easy way to limit customized graceSettings to Voice? > > While using $(add-grace-property ...), any further setting of it will > override the former. Have you taken a look at add-grace-property? It's rather appalling. It figures out the level where the grac

Re: How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/17 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> is there any easy way to limit customized graceSettings to Voice? >> >> While using $(add-grace-property ...), any further setting of it will >> override the former. > > Have you taken a look at add-grace-property? It's rather appalling. It

Re: How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2013/8/17 Thomas Morley > > Any idea? > > Well, I have an idea but not sure that will help ('cause I'm not sure tu understang your scheme code...). Nevertheless, I've also changed some grace settings but directly in LilyPond's code. There I had to change two files for my new settings to work : 1)

Re: Writing a fingering chart for French Horn

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Tommaso, 2013/8/17 Tommaso Gordini : > Hello to all, > this is my first post on lilypond-user. Welcome! > I'm translating a practical guide to French horn and I have a problem that I > could not solve. > I have to write a French Horn fingering card. Many notes admit alternative > combinations

Re: How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Pierre, 2013/8/17 Pierre Perol-Schneider : > 2013/8/17 Thomas Morley >> >> >> Any idea? >> > > Well, I have an idea but not sure that will help ('cause I'm not sure tu > understang your scheme code...). The code was created by David Kastrup. Actually I think he should earn a lot more money!

Re: Text in front of Staves

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Kale, 2013/8/16 Kale Good : > Wow, Nick, that's pretty sharp. Saves on paper for sure. Reminds me of how > they are set in the back of Pumping Nylon. > > Yes, Thomas, tupletspan was also giving me an error. > > I ended up resetting the short name of the instrument between each exercise > and th

Re: Pattern-generating Scheme function challenge

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/7/24 Nicolas Sceaux : > Le 24 juil. 2013 à 01:09, Thomas Morley a écrit : > >> Hi David, Urs, >> >> I'm sorry I didn't try to improve my recent code with David's proposals. >> >> In a few hours (after sleep) I'll start my vacations, being offline >> for three weeks. >> Perhaps someone else mi

Re: Pattern-generating Scheme function challenge

2013-08-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, I'm sorry I didn't seem to acknowledge your contributions. But I'll surely look into them when I'm at home again. Urs Thomas Morley schrieb: >2013/7/24 Nicolas Sceaux : >> Le 24 juil. 2013 à 01:09, Thomas Morley a >écrit : >> >>> Hi David, Urs, >>> >>> I'm sorry I didn't try to imp

Re: How to limit customized graceSettings?

2013-08-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2013/8/17 Thomas Morley > > > 2) property setting music objs. in music-functions.scm > > Here I don't understand. > Could you c/p what you did? OK. In LilyPond scm files, there is one named music-functions.scm. If you open it, at the end of the first quater you'll see : ;;

purpose of commands

2013-08-17 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello: The attached snippet, commands.ly, is from http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices.htm l. 1. What is the purpose/effect of the first line? 2. What is the purpose/effect of the command \bar "||" before voiceTwo? Thank you. Mark v