Re: Shortened extender problem 2.19.57

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2017 um 00:29 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: This looks fine on Mac OS X, Lilypond 2.19.58. Maybe try upgrading to .58, and report back. Indeed, the upgrade fixed it. Thanks! Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi Peter, I ran into Error 256 a while back. I solved it by using a newer version of Lily (the 2.19 branch) installed from the package from the website. HTH, A On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Pieter Terpstra wrote: > > Dear people, > With one file that i wanted to reedit today gives now a fai

Grob callback: query position (unbroken, end-of-line, start-of-line)

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, I would like to override RehearsalMark’s self-alignment-X to -1 only if it’s at start-of-line. How would I find that out in a grob callback? Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2017-04-05 22:31 GMT+03:00 Pieter Terpstra : > > Dear people, > With one file that i wanted to reedit today gives now a failure, it worked > fine in june, 2016. Do you use any custom fonts in the .ly? Have you tried lilypond -V 120-Arpeggios.ly ? > Will not post it here because it is 1274 lines

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:07:24 (+0200), N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I ran into Error 256 a while back. I solved it by using a newer version of > Lily (the 2.19 branch) installed from the package from the website. > > HTH, > > A I didn't see a report that you'd fixed this. I thought y

Re: Grob callback: query position (unbroken, end-of-line, start-of-line)

2017-04-06 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Simon, Simon Albrecht-2 wrote > I would like to override RehearsalMark’s self-alignment-X to -1 only if > it’s at start-of-line. How would I find that out in a grob callback? I'm really no expert on this topic, but I once got some help from David Nalesnik for snippet 1000: \override Horiz

Re: Grob callback: query position (unbroken, end-of-line, start-of-line)

2017-04-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Klaus Blum wrote: > Hi Simon, > > > Simon Albrecht-2 wrote >> I would like to override RehearsalMark’s self-alignment-X to -1 only if >> it’s at start-of-line. How would I find that out in a grob callback? > > > I'm really no expert on this topic, but I once go

Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, I've done a search for this in the documentation and list archives, but because the only terms I can think to search with (line, box, draw) are so common, I cannot get useful results. What I want to do is put a box, visually, around the engraved score, but independent of the engraved score.

Font for SustainPedal

2017-04-06 Thread Manuela
Hi, I changed the font from Emmentaler to Ross, but I would like to keep the SustainPedal from Emmentaler. I cannot figure out how to manage it, \override SustainPedal.font-name did not have any effect, here a code expamle (how do I format text in a posting as code?): /\version "2.19.56" \bookpar

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:33 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > All, > > > I've done a search for this in the documentation and list archives, > but because the only terms I can think to search with (line, box, > draw) are so common, I cannot get useful results. > > > What I want to do is put a box,

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Pieter Terpstra
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: Thanks for your help Dmytro! > Do you use any custom fonts in the .ly? That seems to be the issue in the title i used Morris Roman, which was no problem before. Always have used custom fonts. Some other fonts aslo seem to work fine on this file. > Have you tried lilyp

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 10:33:03 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: > All, > > I've done a search for this in the documentation and list archives, but > because the only terms I can think to search with (line, box, draw) are so > common, I cannot get useful results. You may also be looking for a workflo

Re: Grob callback: query position (unbroken, end-of-line, start-of-line)

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2017 um 16:24 schrieb David Nalesnik: Nevertheless, I think this should do it: Yes it does, many thanks! :-) Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Font for SustainPedal

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2017 um 17:45 schrieb Manuela: (how do I format text in a posting as code?) Don’t :-) Just send the e-mail as plain text, as I believe you did. It came across fine. The / wouldn’t have been necessary. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2017-04-06 19:11 GMT+03:00 Pieter Terpstra : > That seems to be the issue in the title i used Morris Roman, which was no > problem before. > Always have used custom fonts. Some other fonts aslo seem to work fine on > this file. Does your 120-Arpeggios.ps looks good? Does your logfile contain any

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Jeffery Shivers
Hi Guy, On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:33 AM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > What I want to do is put a box, visually, around the engraved score, but > independent of the engraved score. There will be two boxes, one (dashed or > dotted) representing the margins of the document, and another .25" larger > tha

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2017-04-06 21:06 GMT+03:00 Dmytro O. Redchuk : > ps. I've googled a bit: it looks like it was known issue, that's a > thread for example: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195031 Another example: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-03/msg00031.html -- Dmytro O. Redch

Re: Font for SustainPedal

2017-04-06 Thread Noeck
Hi Manuela, the trick is to define a music font with a different name (I called it emm) in addition to the global font. Then it depends if you want to use markup for the pedal marks or the \sustainOn and \sustainOff commands. \version "2.19.56" \paper { #(define fonts (set-global-fonts

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
David, By placed I simply meant that the creator of the final document has to incorporate the music into their document using their preferred editing tool (I don't even know what it is, PageMaker, Publisher, etc.). They are also not well-verserd in the use of image files, etc. and their understand

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thanks, Richard, alas, no ... that does nothing that I can discern except errors in lilypond 2.19.x I'm assuming, therefore, that I don't know what to do with your code. Use \bookTitleMarkup somewhere? Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Richard Shann wrote:

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank you. I won't opt for LaTeX :-) For my part, my knowledge of GIMP is sufficient that if it came to it, I'd output PNG, open in GIMP, and create the boxes. It doesn't take very long to do that, but I've 25 output files and doing this for each of them is, well ... :-) Was hoping it might be easi

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 13:26 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Thanks, Richard, alas, no ... that does nothing that I can discern > except errors in lilypond 2.19.x > > > I'm assuming, therefore, that I don't know what to do with your code. > Use \bookTitleMarkup somewhere? > No, I was just thinking

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Pieter Terpstra
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > Does your 120-Arpeggios.ps looks good? Yes. > Does your logfile contain any errors during PS compiling stage? No errors. > Does `lilypond 120-Arpeggios.ly` produce good pdf with no any custom fonts? Have tried several fonts but til now only the Roman Morris gave thi

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:24:28 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: > David, > > By placed I simply meant that the creator of the final document has to > incorporate the music into their document using their preferred editing > tool (I don't even know what it is, PageMaker, Publisher, etc.). They are > a

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
I recall being instructed to try the packaged Lily, as it came with a built-in gs binary. Doing that, I no longer had this error. Peter: when you get that error message, can you try going into the containing directory in a console, and running the *exact command that fails* (the one in the parenthe

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank you for your advice and guidance. Guy On 4/6/2017 3:27 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:24:28 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: David, By placed I simply meant that the creator of the final document has to incorporate the music into their document using their preferred editi

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:31:20 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Thank you. I won't opt for LaTeX :-) Well that would have been my tool of choice for drawing the lines. But I don't see the necessity for lines anyway. Why not just crop the PDFs with pdfcrop so that the images can be laid on top of th

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
PDFJAM! Man, I'd completely forgotten about that toolset. I've recently migrated to Win10 from Kubuntu16 (LONG story) so unsure if it's available, but I will check to see. And pdfcrop is certainly an option (now that you've mentioned it). I do have cygwin installed on this Win10 Lenovo desktop,

Putting tweaks in a variable

2017-04-06 Thread Knute Snortum
I seem to remember that there is now a way to put several tweaks into a variable. So instead of writing this: c4 -\tweak something -\tweak something-else c8 I could write something like this: masterTweak = { \magic -\tweak something -\tweak something-else } ... c4 -\masterTweak

Re: Putting tweaks in a variable

2017-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Knute Snortum writes: > I seem to remember that there is now a way to put several tweaks into a > variable. So instead of writing this: > > c4 -\tweak something -\tweak something-else c8 > > I could write something like this: > > masterTweak = { \magic -\tweak something -\tweak something

Property overrides by ID (discussion)

2017-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I've done a first implementation of an ID based property override, which is sort of a complement to the edition-engraver. It's significantly less complex than the edition-engraver, has some advantages over it, but also significant limitations. If you want to have a closer look you may inspect

Re: Putting tweaks in a variable

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.04.2017 um 00:15 schrieb David Kastrup: masterTweak = \tweak something \tweak something-else \etc To give some context: You actually need a music function for that purpose. \etc is only an abbreviation to have the parser (?) construct that music function for you. Best, Simon

Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

2017-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-04-06 18:11 GMT+02:00 Pieter Terpstra : > Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > > Thanks for your help Dmytro! > >> Do you use any custom fonts in the .ly? > > That seems to be the issue in the title i used Morris Roman, which was no > problem before. > Always have used custom fonts. Some other fonts as

Re: looking for help debugging a "return code 1 error"

2017-04-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Thanks for the detailed and [perhaps surprisingly] helpful reply. > The last lines of the traceback > > 243: 13 [ly:book-process # #< Output_def> ...] > In unknown file: > ?: 14* [# #] > ?: 15* [# # #] > ?: 16* [# #] > > point to code likely introduced in version 2.19.55 Befor

Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave

2017-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 16:29:11 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: > PDFJAM! Man, I'd completely forgotten about that toolset. I've > recently migrated to Win10 from Kubuntu16 (LONG story) so unsure if > it's available, but I will check to see. And pdfcrop is certainly an > option (now that you've mentio

Re: Font for SustainPedal

2017-04-06 Thread Manuela
Noeck wrote > Does that help? Thanks a lot, works like a charm. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Font-for-SustainPedal-tp202004p202034.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-us

Re: looking for help debugging a "return code 1 error"

2017-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > > Thanks for the detailed and [perhaps surprisingly] helpful reply. > >> The last lines of the traceback >> >> 243: 13 [ly:book-process # #< Output_def> ...] >> In unknown file: >> ?: 14* [# #] >> ?: 15* [# # #] >> ?: 16* [# #] >> >> point to code l