Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/9/14 Jim Long : > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:14:55PM +0200, Janek Warcho?? wrote: >> >> I think that we should add to LilyPond a simple, user-friendly >> interface that would allow choosing the "density" of music, so that >> one could write >> \layout { \horizontalSpacingLoose } >> and it woul

Re: film score example

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/9/14 Kieren MacMillan : >> Please take a look at this snippet: >> http://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/blob/master/input-shorthands/articulations-not-aligned-with-notes.ly >> It has some issues, but you'll get an idea immediately after compiling >> it. I think it's clever and could pro

Re: film score example

2013-09-15 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Hi, > > 2013/9/14 Kieren MacMillan : >>> Please take a look at this snippet: >>> http://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/blob/master/input-shorthands/articulations-not-aligned-with-notes.ly >>> It has some issues, but you'll get an idea immediately after compiling >>> it.

Re: film score example

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/9/15 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: >> As far as i see, implementing this with some reasonable and >> user-friendly syntax would require a substantial discussion. We tried >> to discuss these "GLISS" things last September, but the outcome was >> somewhat discouraging... > > The "dis

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/9/10 David Kastrup : > Hilary Snaden writes: > >> This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it >> should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the >> voices. Changing the volume values makes no difference at all. \dyns >> contains dynamics fo

Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-15 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: Jim Long wrote: I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs would be engraved over the top of each other in one big blob, and a fact

Re: Reminder: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-09-20 to 2013-09-24

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/9/14 David Kastrup : > This is a reminder that next weekend, Sept 20th to 24th, there will be a > LilyPond developer and user meeting in Waltrop, Germany. After the > first attempt to schedule the meeting in August, we rescheduled in order > to better meet people's calendars. I'd like t

Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Alan McConnell
Assembled Wisdom! I am transcribing some Bach choruses for string quartet, and I wish to use the orthography of the Bach Gesellschaft, as given in the Dover scores that I have. To explain my problem, I ask you to first look at the following extract from one of my parts: (start)---

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread David Kastrup
Alan McConnell writes: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I am transcribing some Bach choruses for > string quartet, and I wish to use the > orthography of the Bach Gesellschaft, as > given in the Dover scores that I have. > > To explain my problem, I ask you to first > look at the following extract from on

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Alan, I agree with David Kastrup's remarks, but would like to give you a simple solution to your problem as I understand it (without knowing those Dover scores): try this: |ees4 d c | c4. d8 bes4. * 2/3 | a8 * 2 a4. g8 | g2 r4 | what I've done is to reduce the bes4. internally to bes4 (b

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Alan McConnell
First of all, my thanks to both David K and Robert S for their quick responses! On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:25:33PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Alan McConnell writes: > > > (start)-- > > \version "2.16.0" > > > > global = { > > \key d \minor > > \time 3/4 > > } > >

Re: Reminder: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-09-20 to 2013-09-24

2013-09-15 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 15.09.2013 16:20, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, 2013/9/14 David Kastrup : This is a reminder that next weekend, Sept 20th to 24th, there will be a LilyPond developer and user meeting in Waltrop, Germany. After the first attempt to schedule the meeting in August, we rescheduled in order to bett

Re: Reminder: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-09-20 to 2013-09-24

2013-09-15 Thread Urs Liska
I'm very sorry, but I currently can't afford neither the time nor the money for the trip. Best Urs "Janek Warchoł" schrieb: >Hi, > >2013/9/14 David Kastrup : >> This is a reminder that next weekend, Sept 20th to 24th, there will >be a >> LilyPond developer and user meeting in Waltrop, Germany

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread David Kastrup
Alan McConnell writes: >> > The '^' marks the dot on the dotted Bb that I wish >> > to move into the next bar. The part compiles just >> > fine; >> >> No, it doesn't. > Not the above excerpt, for sure. But the > part from which this is taken compiles fine; > I've pr

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/15 Alan McConnell : > First of all, my thanks to both David K and Robert S for > their quick responses! > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:25:33PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Alan McConnell writes: >> > >> > (start)-- >> > \version "2.16.0" >> > >> > global = { >> >

Re: MUP and LilyPond (fwd)

2013-09-15 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:33:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Tarenskeen To: Janek Warchoł Subject: Re: MUP and LilyPond On Sun, 15 Sep 2013, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, I've just found an email of yours in the archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Alan McConnell
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:23:06PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > special needs or interest have Bach Dover scores? But I > > would expect tho folks who do have such scores to easily > > recognize my problem from the "extract" that I gave, and > > reproduce above. > > Some piec

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/9/15 Alan McConnell : > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:23:06PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> > special needs or interest have Bach Dover scores? But I >> > would expect tho folks who do have such scores to easily >> > recognize my problem from the "extract" that I gave, and >

Re: Windows registry, Python, and LilyPond

2013-09-15 Thread Eluze
Eluze wrote > > Frederick Bartlett wrote >> However, since the python script I use most (midi2ly) doesn't work on >> Windows anyway > please, refine what you mean with this or give an example! > Eluze maybe this can help to clarify what's going wrong: quoting http://ss64.com/nt/path.html "The

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> After reading (tens of) thousands of LilyPond emails, we (or at > least I) have developed a habit (actually sort of a 'conditioned > response') of grabbing the code from an email, pasting it into an > editor and running lilypond on that file. if the compilation fails, > our brains say "no outpu

programming error: insane spring distance

2013-09-15 Thread Jim Long
It would be very helpful to get a filename and line number on this message, if that is possible/easy/convenient. That is, the file/line of the .ly source that triggered the error, not the file/line number of the programming error itself! :) Thank you! Jim $ cat tiny-insane-spring.ly \version

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/15 Thomas Morley : > 2013/9/15 Alan McConnell : >> First of all, my thanks to both David K and Robert S for >> their quick responses! >> >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:25:33PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Alan McConnell writes: >>> >> >>> > (start)-- >>> > \version

Re: Problem with hemiola notation

2013-09-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/16 Janek Warchoł : > Hi, > > 2013/9/15 Alan McConnell : >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:23:06PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >>> >>> > special needs or interest have Bach Dover scores? But I >>> > would expect tho folks who do have such scores to easily >>> > recognize my problem f

programming error: insane spring distance

2013-09-15 Thread Jim Long
It would be very helpful to get a filename and line number on this message, if that is possible/easy/convenient. That is, the file/line of the .ly source that triggered the error, not the file/line number of the programming error itself! :) Thank you! Jim $ cat tiny-insane-spring.ly \version

Re: Windows registry, Python, and LilyPond

2013-09-15 Thread Frederick Bartlett
Eluze, When I try midi2ly under Windows 7, I get the error "No module named midi". While I see a midi.dll in LilyPond\usr\bin and LilyPond\lib\lilypond\current\python, I don't have anything at all under \Python27. But, as I said, it works fine on my Linux box ... so I assume I'm missing some Wind

[ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac (Wilbert Berendsen)

2013-09-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Davide, Prior to using your new port, I had a working Frescobaldi that I installed many months ago using a very cryptic and painful process that required a lot of manual work to get poppler, frescobaldi, etc installed. But, it did work. Tonight I tried to use your new port. The port compiles with

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac (Wilbert Berendsen)

2013-09-15 Thread Philippe Massart
Hello, Before trying to find a solution to your situation (it will take some time to investigate), I think interesting to point some possible explanations about what occurred. I think that to problem comes from the coexistence of macport installed frescobaldi, and manually installed (even with