File structure builder, comments

2006-02-25 Thread Christian Conkle
I'm thinking about typesetting a number of orchestral pieces from old Dover reprints to go along with an orchestration course I'm taking. I've been thinking about ways to make the process easier (since I don't have the scores yet) and have been considering writing a script (in Ruby) to generate 'c

Octave check in bass

2006-05-08 Thread Christian Conkle
I'm working on an orchestral score with lots of bassy things, and the bar and octave checks are keeping me sane as I shuffle notes around the score. However, the octave checks don't function as I expect below bass C: \version "2.7.30" \relative c { \clef bass c4 g=, } octave.ly:5:6: war

Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2006-05-10 Thread Christian Conkle
pond --pdf and pdftops produced proper output. I know that people have been talking about Lilypond's postscript output for a while (I applied John Hawkinson's patch to print on 9x12 paper as required by my orchestra), and I wonder if anybody's interested in rooting out wh

Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2006-05-14 Thread Christian Conkle
By the way, I'm sorry for not having had time to finish productionizing my PostScript patches. I expect I'll have time in late May. It is possible (even likely!) that using my patch is causing a problem for the psbook|psnup stage. Can you try without my patch to confirm? Also, does the psnup out

Inital barnumber?

2006-05-23 Thread Christian Conkle
I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a "musicological document" with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar numbering correct, and it would be nice to have Lilypond put a bar number at the beginning of