Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-02 Thread Robert Kubosz
Hmm, maybe I will introduce you to the problem I am now tackling and why I need to know the available free space in markup command. I'm modifying the book template shared by Nicolas Sceaux. Now I'm working on table of contents. The table of contents looks beautiful on one condition: sections don't

Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Robert, It seems to me wishful thinking to try to get inside the machinery of the markup commands to do your own custom layout. What you are after is what I refer to as newspaper columns, or snaking columns they are sometimes called. This properly belongs to the domain of powerful text proce

Is anyone using "tabr" ? (tablature oriented package)

2019-05-02 Thread Gauco Wander Beall
Hi there: This is my first post, and i like to ask about "tabr": Is anyone using it ? It's a package for guitar tablature, that  wrapps around LilyPond. Although it generates (.ly), it not generated this output data. I used the following code: # My First Score library(tabr) p("r a2 c f d a f", "4

cues overlapping compressed multi measure rest

2019-05-02 Thread Alex Jones
I am trying to replicate an odd structure, which places cue notes over top of the conclusion of a compressed multi measure rest. Normally when I make cues I use the << {} \\ {} >> structure such that I might have code like the following, but it breaks up the multi measure rest, any suggestion

Re: Is anyone using "tabr" ? (tablature oriented package)

2019-05-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Gauco Wander Beall Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 11:20 AM To: Subject: Is anyone using "tabr" ? (tablature oriented package) Hi there: This is my first post, and i like to ask about "tabr": Is anyone using it ? I have never used tabr, and cannot imagine a reason why I would want to

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2019-05-02 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi everyone, Has anyone encountered this error in Terminal before? I'm on a Mac (latest OS) and invoking Lilypond on about 30 parts. This error came up on about the 25th part. warning: g_spawn_sync failed (0): gs: Too many open files All the best, CRaig -- [image: photograph] *Craig D

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2019-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
ulimit -a please. Lilypond version? What version of 'latest OS' exactly (that varies depending on how old your Mac is nowadays)? Andrew On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 09:48, Craig Dabelstein wrote: > > > Has anyone encountered this error in Terminal before? I'm on a Mac (latest > OS) and invoking Lilyp

RE: Is anyone using "tabr" ? (tablature oriented package)

2019-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Gauco, Welcome to lilypond. What is your use case? Are you simply wanting to produce guitar tab, or are you wanting to do programmatic/algorithmic composition which outputs to lilypond? If the former, lilypond is fine for TAB as is, and many people use it. As for the algorithmic programmi

Re: Edition Engraver master vs refactor override branch: changing bound-details

2019-05-02 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Stefano, a lot of lilypond-unrelated business prevented me working on the edition-engraver and especially in the refactor-override-branch for quite a while. Meanwhile there where some small issues to fix in master so the two branches diverged. So the old and stale 'refactor-override-branch' is