Re: lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX

2014-09-26 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 25.09.2014 um 20:51 schrieb Julien Rioux: On 24/09/2014 11:52 AM, Xirux Nefer wrote: I am using lilypond-book to compile solfeo.lytex: [...] [...] Thanks for your report. This seems to me like the same issue as https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2471 Ah, ok. I wasn't

Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Dan Eble
I have a hymnal in which many songs have time signatures with symbols "cc" and "¢¢" [doubled cut-time symbol]. I can't find any information on these online. Does anyone know what they actually mean? Were they common historically, or is this hymnal just using them ad hoc? My hypothesis based on

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-26 Thread Jay Vara
Paul > > Hi Jay, You don't need to use string->symbol to do this. > #abc will return the value of abc (the string IamJustAText), just like \abc > does. I should have made my question clearer. The string in string->symbol is a generated string. I have changed the example program as below to

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 26.09.2014 um 04:10 schrieb Dan Eble: I have a hymnal in which many songs have time signatures with symbols "cc" and "¢¢" [doubled cut-time symbol]. I can't find any information on these online. Does anyone know what they actually mean? Were they common historically, or is this hymnal just

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Simon Albrecht wrote: Now the interpretation and history of the various time signatures derived in some way from mensural notation is a complex issue, as is the disambiguation of c and cut c. One of the things I remember from my music Theory and History classes is that

Little correction and a question Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Simon,, thank's for that, just a little correction: You wrote: > The double cut c time signature occurs in Schubert, op. 90, no. 4 It's definitely Schubert, op. 90, no. 3 instead of Schubert, op. 90, no. 4 > disambiguation of c and cut c. There are numerous historical > depe

Re: lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX

2014-09-26 Thread Xirux Nefer
Davide Liessi gmail.com> writes: > The warning is correct: 'fontload' is not among the possible options > What were you trying to achieve with that option? I swear I saw that in the documentation, ha ha... although after 3 days reading lilypond's docs I may have ended up suffering spectral visio

"winning mood" Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Martin, You wrote: > One of the things I remember from my music Theory and History classes is > that C had not much to do with the letter "C" but was in fact half of a > circle. The Circle O was used when there were 3 beats in a measure, the > Tempus Perfectum, 3 being the Hol

fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Peter Terpstra
Dear People, It works perfect in the example from Lilypond documentation but in my projects they refuse to go left or right, only up or down. What am doing wrong ? Here my .ly file, (left on bar 5): \version "2.18.2" \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4") #(layout-set-absolute-staff-size (* 22.

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Conor Cook
Remember (if it was ever pointed out), perfection in this case means simply completeness. God is complete (perfect) in Himself, people are incomplete (imperfect). According to Church theology, at least. Maybe we are just especially aware of our incompleteness these days. Or we simply prefer

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Peter Terpstra" To: Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 3:15 PM Subject: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right. Dear People, It works perfect in the example from Lilypond documentation but in my projects they refuse to go left or right, only up o

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Peter Terpstra
Phil Holmes wrote: > Posting a huge amount of music to illustrate a small point? > > Perhaps you could cut this down to a tiny example. Ah, ..so sorry Would like to cancel it. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.or

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Peter, Try : \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) 8\< g' e g gis' d gis\! Cheers, Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-09-26 16:15 GMT+02:00 Peter Terpstra : > It works perfect in the example from Lilypond documentation but in my > projects they refuse to go left or right, only up or down. Which snippet? You are not enclosing the note in a chord construct <>: The placement of fingering numbers can be contr

Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
I wonder if this problem has occurred with 2.18.2, but I have not tried it. Anyone understand why the composer is coming out all the way to the right of the margin? see attached. Sincerely, Josh ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: I wonder if this problem has occurred with 2.18.2, but I have not tried it. Anyone understand why the composer is coming out all the way to the right of the margin? see attached. Sincerely, Josh Josh, I, personally, haven't noticed

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
Thanks Abraham. See attached. Thank you for the tremendous and hard work you have put to explore alternate fonts. I am in debt to you (for which I might just donate ;) ). IC, Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Nichols > wrote: >

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread TaoCG
My guess is that it has nothing to do with the new fonts. See this issue https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4102 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Strange-happenings-with-alternate-music-fonts-2-19-14-tp166835p166838.html Sent from the User

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Knute Snortum
Can't you also just say: c4\finger "3-5" ? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > 2014-09-26 16:15 GMT+02:00 Peter Terpstra : > >> It works perfect in the example from Lilypond documentation but in my >> projects they refuse to go left or right, onl

stem comflict

2014-09-26 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello, In the attached file, Stem Up Lower.ly, the stems are correctly aligned. When the pitches are raised an octave (where they should be), Stem Up Upper.ly, the stems conflict. What must I do to get the upper version have the same stem alignment as the lower? Thank you for your kind

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: Thanks Abraham. See attached. Thank you for the tremendous and hard work you have put to explore alternate fonts. I am in debt to you (for which I might just donate ;) ). IC, Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Abraham Lee wrote:

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread tisimst
Thanks! I'm glad to hear that you find them useful. Donations are not required, but certainly appreciated :) Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Joshua Nichols [via Lilypond] > wrote: > > Thanks Abraham. See attached. > > Thank you for the tremendous and har

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread tisimst
That's the one I was referring to :) Thank you for referencing the issue's link. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:54 PM, TaoCG [via Lilypond] > wrote: > > My guess is that it has nothing to do with the new fonts. > See this issue https://code.google.com/p/lilypo

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: In the following program, I set xyz to the variable abc using scheme string->symbol as well as the usual \abc. Instead of giving the same value for xyz, the first one sets it to string "abc" and the second sets it to value of abc. Maybe you are reading out the symbol name (whic

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
> (or rather, the empty markup)... What do you mean? I don't see an empty markup. > So it must be the current composer... Is it too long? IC, Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Joshua Nichols > wrote: > > Thanks Abraham. See attached

Re: fingeringOrientations refuse to go left or right.

2014-09-26 Thread Peter Terpstra
Federico Bruni wrote: > You are not enclosing the note in a chord construct <>: > > The placement of fingering numbers can be controlled precisely. For > fingering orientation to apply, you must use a chord construct <> even if > it is a single note. Absolutely right, how silly of me to forget t

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > (or rather, the empty markup)... What do you mean? I don't see an empty markup. > So it must be the current composer... Is it too long? IC, Josh Josh, It's not that YOU put empty markup in it, but that the other header properties

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-26 Thread Jay Vara
Robin > The following seems to read out the value of abc: > > xyz = #(eval (string->symbol "abc") (interaction-environment)) > Wow, that works! Thanks. I had not noticed interaction-environment when I read the guile manual. I will read through that section this weekend to understand why th

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Shane Brandes
Waltzes are only sort of in 3/4 time. If you play them properly. Shane On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Conor Cook wrote: > Remember (if it was ever pointed out), perfection in this case means simply > completeness. God is complete (perfect) in Himself, people are incomplete > (imperfect).

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
> It's not that YOU put empty markup in it, Oh, that is a relief. I'm always afraid of being more blatantly stupid in this things. Thanks for clarifying! I did go through the motions of getting 2.18.2 to work, and you are exactly right. I apologize for being lazy and not trying that first. At any

Size of title with multiple scores on a page

2014-09-26 Thread gingrich
Hi, I've managed to make some real progress getting my head around Lillypond, and I'd have to say that the output quality is awesome compared to what I'd previously been using. I've spent a few hours looking, tried a lot of things and still cannot get what I'm after here. In the pared-down (b