Re: Output PDF to stdout

2024-01-05 Thread Volodymyr Prokopyuk
Thank you very much for your thoughts! I expected that the PDF output to stdout would be difficult to implement due to multiple Lilypond backends, and, probably, is not a real bottleneck in PDF generation. It is nice to know that intermediary files are already handled by a FS cache, and can be ext

Re: build a specific stable lillypond version with git

2024-01-05 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion
On Thu, 2024-01-04 at 22:33 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > CX writes: > > > Is it possible to build a specific stable lillypond version with sources > > retrieved by git clone instead of a source tarball download? > > If it is possible how can you do this (because I can not find the > > documentat

Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Robert Hickman
Hi, I'm trying to make an example showing mordent symbols with text labels. I want the note positions spaced so that the text is all on one line, with notes placed as needed to fit around it. The easiest way I can think of doing that would be to put manually sized 'gap fillers' between the notes

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Phil Holmes
Checkout \textLengthOn and see if it does what you want. On 05/01/2024 14:50, Robert Hickman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make an example showing mordent symbols with text labels. I want the note positions spaced so that the text is all on one line, with notes placed as needed to fit around it. Th

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser via LilyPond user discussion
Hi Robert, I'm trying to make an example showing mordent symbols with text labels. I want the note positions spaced so that the text is all on one line, with notes placed as needed to fit around it. The easiest way I can think of doing that would be to put manually sized 'gap fillers' between t

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Robert Hickman
Hi Phill, that mostly works, thank you for your help. However the text isn't vertically aligned, and the text blocks are too close together. The documentation mentions 'staff-padding' in regards to the first issues, but doesn't say how to actually set that. 'Neither Staff.padding' or 'Text.padding

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Robert Hickman
Don't worry, found out how to do it: \version "2.18.2" \header {tagline = ""} { \numericTimeSignature \textLengthOn \override Staff.padding = #3 \time 4/4 a'4\mordent -\tweak staff-padding #4 ^"Mordent" a'4\upmordent -\tweak staff-padding #4 ^"Upper Mordent" a'4\downmor

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Robert, > Don't worry, found out how to do it: > > \version "2.18.2" > \header {tagline = ""} > { >\numericTimeSignature >\textLengthOn >\override Staff.padding = #3 >\time 4/4 >a'4\mordent -\tweak staff-padding #4 ^"Mordent" >a'4\upmordent -\tweak staff-padding #4 ^"Up

Re: Manually control note spacing?

2024-01-05 Thread Robert Hickman
This is great, thank you so much! On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 15:53, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > Don't worry, found out how to do it: > > > > \version "2.18.2" > > \header {tagline = ""} > > { > >\numericTimeSignature > >\textLengthOn > >\override Staff.padding = #3 > >

2.24.3 error: Guile... (let ((book-handler (if (defined? 'default-toplevel-book-handler)

2024-01-05 Thread Mike Kilmer
Hi, all. Happy new year. Upgraded Lilypond today via homebrew (OSX 13.5.2 Ventura) Getting error: ``` GNU LilyPond 2.24.3 (running Guile 3.0) Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page...

how to install lilypond version on linux (ubuntu 22.04)

2024-01-05 Thread CX
I managed to build a specific stable lilypond version for my linux distro (Ubuntu 22.04). Because I can not find the wright documentation on this subject, I like to know how can I install the generated build files from my build directory on my linux distro. When I try to install my build with “sudo

Re: how to install lilypond version on linux (ubuntu 22.04)

2024-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I managed to build a specific stable lilypond version for my linux > distro (Ubuntu 22.04). Because I can not find the wright > documentation on this subject, I like to know how can I install the > generated build files from my build directory on my linux distro. > When I try to install my buil