an output question

2008-05-20 Thread James E. Bailey
I was just wondering if it's possible to get lilypond to print 2-up. So I get two A4 sheets on one A3 sheet? I know I can do it in acrobat, but I like to use acrobat as infrequently as possible, and I've actually never used ghostscript directly.

clef question

2008-05-21 Thread James E. Bailey
Is it possible to get lilypond to use two clefs? I'm looking at some music wherein two clefs are used. I see the documentation on adding clefs as a markup, but then I don't get the key signature doubled, which I kinda need. Or is there a way to print my own key signature independently, and

Re: clef question

2008-05-21 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 21.05.2008 um 17:03 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: James E. Bailey wrote: Is it possible to get lilypond to use two clefs? I'm looking at some music wherein two clefs are used. I see the documentation on adding clefs as a markup, but then I don't get the key signature double

Re: can't beam in a quintuplet

2008-05-24 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 24.05.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi Stefan, 2008/5/24 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear lilypond-users, I have another strange problem: in the below quoted example, I can't have the notes in the quintuplet under one beam. How can I solve the problem? \version "2.11.43" \r

Re: Music sizes

2008-05-28 Thread James E. Bailey
8.5x11 is US-ANSI letter size. booklet sized sheets that when folded will be 8.5x11 are tabloid (and are 11x17). Normal music scores (in the US) are 9x12, US ARCH B size. Booklet sized sheets that when folded will be 9x12 are US ARCH C size (and are 12x18) Am 28.05.2008 um 22:23 schrieb Gar

Re: Music sizes

2008-05-28 Thread James E. Bailey
u know what that's called? On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:48 PM, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8.5x11 is US-ANSI letter size. booklet sized sheets that when folded will be 8.5x11 are tabloid (and are 11x17). Normal music scores (in the US) are 9x12, US ARCH B size. Booklet

Re: how to get error messages in a separate text file

2008-05-30 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm using bash, but on OSX. And I don't really get the results that I was looking for with this. I still get my errors in stdout. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

two dynamics contexts and moving my headers

2008-05-30 Thread James E. Bailey
page and not to itself. Can I get the markups to be where they are normally, but to have two lines that are centered to each other. I'm trying \markup {\center-align {"James E. Bailey" \smaller "2008"}}. Nothing fancy.

piano centered dynamics

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm using the 2.11 branch of lilypond, and I notice that the forced- distance used in the piano centered dynamics isn't there (lilypond tells me, and there's no mention that I can see in the 2.11 documentation). It's in the 2.10 branch (lilypond doesn't tell me it's a typo and I see it in th

piano centered dynamics

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
I think the forced-distance might be a bug, everything else in the align-interface between the two branches (2.10 and 2.11) are the same, just the user-settable forced-distance is missing :( ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

center-aligning the poet

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
After further inquest, I find that I can center-align only the composer in the header block, attempting to center-align the poet gets those not-so-desirable results. Again, is there a way to fix this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 31.05.2008 um 11:55 schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi James, 2008/5/31 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think the forced-distance might be a bug, everything else in the align-interface between the two branches (2.10 and 2.11) are the same, just the user-settable forced-distance is m

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 31.05.2008 um 11:55 schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi James, 2008/5/31 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think the forced-distance might be a bug, everything else in the align-interface between the two branches (2.10 and 2.11) are the same, just the user-settable forced-distance is m

Re: two dynamics contexts and moving my headers

2008-05-31 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 31.05.2008 um 18:34 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/5/31 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I was having some difficulty yesterday, and I'm sure that it's only because I'm in a rush and can't think well, but this just isn't working for me. Hi James,

Re: Context creation

2008-06-01 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 01.06.2008 um 21:09 schrieb Jesse Engle: Hello, I'm having trouble understanding context creation using \new and \context, *especially* when the context is given a name. The manual offers just one explicit example of how this is used, but I can't make sense of it. Could anyone here please e

piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm really tring here, there should be online classes to figure this out, it just doesn't make sense to me. If anyone would be willing to help, I've posted a sample of what the music looks like, and it can be seen here. Really, all I would like is to have the dynamics centered between the t

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see if anything new happens. The only diffe

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: James E. Bailey wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda ju

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 18:29 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2008/6/2 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Try: \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 3) instead of (-1 . 1 ) It's ugly, but it (kind of) works. ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly differen

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 22:04 schrieb Graham Percival: On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:36:35 +0200 "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 18:29 schrieb Neil Puttock: ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly different; it doesn't need the hackish e

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 04.06.2008 um 13:42 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: Well, it's not very elegant but it works o.k. I just override the dynamics positioning each time I need it. I just experimented to find the right values. To make life easier I define the override as a variable: nuj = \once \override Dynami

markup question

2008-06-04 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm trying some things and I expected a flat symbol on the bottom line but got nothing. { \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Clef #'text = \markup \musicglyph #"clefs.C" \override Staff.KeySignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Key

Re: markup question

2008-06-05 Thread James E. Bailey
ere should be no need to typeset it manually using markups. /Mats James E. Bailey wrote: I'm trying some things and I expected a flat symbol on the bottom line but got nothing. { \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Clef #'text = \markup \

Re: markup question

2008-06-06 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 06.06.2008 um 00:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, Oh, thanks, I actually solved my problem. When Mats said I hope you know about the built-in capabilities in LilyPond to handle non-standard key signatures. As long as you only want to have normal flat and sharp symbols in your

Re: markup question

2008-06-06 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 06.06.2008 um 00:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, Oh, thanks, I actually solved my problem. When Mats said I hope you know about the built-in capabilities in LilyPond to handle non-standard key signatures. As long as you only want to have normal flat and sharp symbols in your

Re: incorrect beams in 16th quintuplet

2008-06-08 Thread James E. Bailey
You might take a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-05/msg00481.html Am 09.06.2008 um 04:24 schrieb luis jure: hello list, sorry, i guess this must be in the docs somewhere, perhaps it has been discussed in the list before, but i can't really find a solution... wh

change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm wondering about how I can change the default horizontal spacing, at least for dynamics, so that rather than adjust them up/down, lilypond adjusts the measure width.here was my generic input file: \header{ title = "A scale in LilyPond"} \relative {\time 3/4 c\ppp d\pp e\p f\mp g\mf a\f b

Re: how do I control the size of the musical fonts?

2008-06-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.06.2008 um 00:16 schrieb Victor Eijkhout: Meaning, not lyrics, but the notes. Suppose I want to shrink a whole score by a few percent so that it takes one page less? Or in piano + solo instrument, it's customary to print the solo slightly smaller in the score. How do I do that? Vic

Re: how do I control the size of the musical fonts?

2008-06-12 Thread James E. Bailey
-score.ly' Parsing... queen-score-separate.ly:29:30: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \new Staff \with {fontSize = # -2} = "Alto" { Unbound variable: -2} On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:33 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: or more lik

Re: Figured bass stacking direction default

2008-06-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 13.06.2008 um 18:15 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: My question: Should the default value of stacking-dir result in <4 6> producing 6 4 Dear God, please no. When you think of a chord, you name it in that order, c-e-g. When you think of a figured bass 8 5 3 you name it as you read it,

Re: Inspirational Headwords for Chords section of manual

2008-06-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 13.06.2008 um 18:05 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: Dear LilyPond users, I'm rewriting the section on chords for the GDP. I'm getting close to releasing it to -user for your review, but before I do, I need some music examples. 1) I'd like an "Inspirational Headword" for the section on chords

Re: Syntax explanations

2008-06-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 13.06.2008 um 23:17 schrieb Graham Percival: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:46:57 +0200 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:22:44 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL

Re: an innocent's query :)

2008-06-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 14.06.2008 um 10:21 schrieb Bill Mooney: Greetings All, I am a newcomer to the list, and to Lilypond. Notwithstanding this I am finding LP very satisfying to use and am currently setting some hand-notation music for a friend - from which activity rises my query. Would it be worthwhile to

stopTrillSpan

2008-06-15 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm sure there is, and I just can't think my way around it, but I'm having a problem with a trillspan that starts in a one-voice context and ends in a two-voice context. Like this: \relative c'{ \pitchedTrill 1\startTrillSpan a | <<\relative g'{g1\stopTrillSpan}\\\relative c'{

Re: stopTrillSpan

2008-06-15 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 15.06.2008 um 18:57 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, I'm wondering if there's a way to do without the spacer notes. See attached modifications. Be sure to read the docs, especially the section on "relative mode" and "explicitly instantiating voices" (or whatever they're called now

Re: What's wrong with this syntax?

2008-06-16 Thread James E. Bailey
the tilde should be before the \melisma Am 16.06.2008 um 00:21 schrieb Patrick Horgan: \set Staff.melismaBusyProperties = #'(melismaBusy) a4 bes2 a4 bes1 \melisma ~ bes ~ bes ~ \melismaEnd bes Lilypond complains about the ~ after the \melisma, but I want the tie there. Help!!!

syntax question

2008-06-19 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't quite understand what the difference between score and Score are. I'm sure this is discussed in some documentation somewhere, but I just don't know where to look. Can someone point me in the right direction? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: syntax question

2008-06-19 Thread James E. Bailey
tactical construct, which internally creates a Score context (among others). It is also possible to explicitly instantiate a Score context, but I don't really see the added value of doing it (even though I seem to recall that there was some specific reason to introduce this possibility). /M

fingering slur

2008-06-20 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm trying the fingerings for the first time, and I'm getting it, but I don't know if there's a way to get a little slur over an articulation. I see how to use the \finger in a markup, but I'm wondering specifically about the little slur. Is there an easy way to get that? <> http://img2.fre

strange midi error

2008-06-20 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm transcribing some chopin, and I get a very strange midi error, Going back in time. Usually I don't worry about these kinds of things, but this one wasn't translated, and the MIDI sounds like it's played by a rather bad pianist. GNU LilyPond 2.11.49 »Valse in cis moll.ly« wird verarbeite

moving objects closer to the staff

2008-06-25 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm trying to figure out how to move fingerings so that they are inside a slur. Currently, I get notes, then the slur, then the fingerings on top of the slur, I'd like to have the notes, then the fingerings, then the slur. ___ lilypond-user mail

tweaks

2008-06-26 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't tweak very often, but somehow I'm missing something here. \override PhrasingSlur #'height-limit = #1 the phrasing slur that follows is generating an error and I just don't understand. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

page margin help

2008-06-26 Thread James E. Bailey
So, uh, I've got music running literally off the bottom of the page, colliding with the footer and the tagline and the only modification I've made to the paper is \paper {between-system-padding = #0.1} Is there something I should change that I don't know about?

beams

2008-06-27 Thread James E. Bailey
When it rains, it pours, This is the most minimal example I could extract. The output has the cross staff beams horribly, horribly wrong. I've never seen this kind of problem before, and unlike most of my problems, I really can't just ignore this one. \include "deutsch.ly" #(ly:set-option 'p

Re: beams

2008-06-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.06.2008 um 22:55 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, The output has the cross staff beams horribly, horribly wrong. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but maybe the following modified code will get you going in the right direction: Well, I had a guess, and it came up r

Re: where is "score wizard"? searcheable manual unresponsive.

2008-06-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 30.06.2008 um 02:40 schrieb plasmacarwash: Hi People Tonite at approx. 8:30 PM and 8:35PM EST USA. I tried twice to search the online manual but got a "The server at lsr.dsi.unimi.it is taking too long to respond" firefox message. :teeth: Is there a sticky somewhere about this? Sinc

Re: Using LilyPond with Arabic music

2008-06-30 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 30.06.2008 um 14:50 schrieb josephHarfouch: http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.tex arabic.tex http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.pdf arabic.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.ly arabic.ly Hello, Some time ago, I put a question on the forum regarding using Ar

Re: How do you move a couple of words down a bit?

2008-06-30 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 01.07.2008 um 02:40 schrieb Frederick Dennis: Dear All, in version 2.10.33, how do you move lyrics down a bit? Just two words. Thank you for your attention. I have looked at the docs. Adding a blank lyricline would move them down too much. ___ l

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

2008-07-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.07.2008 um 22:50 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: On 7/2/08 2:41 PM, "Eric Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It works! I have a modified applescript that will open the hyperlink into TextMate. The TextMate command line utility only has the ability to go to a specified line in the file but t

making lyrics italic

2008-07-02 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm trying to make lyrics italicised, I can see that the text- interface is a part of the lyrictext, I just don't know how to access teh text markup commands so I can italic. Can anyone help? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Error message using 2.11.50-1

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 03.07.2008 um 04:17 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: Hi everyone, I just installed the latest build and when I ran the file I'm working on, it came back with this error, which I think has to do with a macro included near the top of the document. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ tarantella running

strange lyric problem

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
I've just got an error on something that I've used before and after (in the same file!) and I don't understand it GNU LilyPond 2.11.49 »Scene_1.2.ly« wird verarbeitet Analysieren... Scene_1.2.ly:170:35: Fehler: keine gültige Dauer: 47 mei4. -- de!8 \skip4|

Re: strange lyric problem

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 03.07.2008 um 14:28 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, it's processing the % as a word. Are you on MacOS? Regardless, it might be a carriage-return/line-feed issue (like the one I fight with in the MacOS Lilypond editor) -- see what happens if you surround the offending code/line w

Re: strange lyric problem

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 03.07.2008 um 14:28 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, it's processing the % as a word. Are you on MacOS? Regardless, it might be a carriage-return/line-feed issue (like the one I fight with in the MacOS Lilypond editor) -- see what happens if you surround the offending code/line w

Re: beams

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.06.2008 um 19:14 schrieb Andrew Hawryluk: It looks like a bug to me. Here's a reduced snippet for the bug tracker: % Slur and fingering interfere with cross-staff beaming. % If either the fingering or the slur are removed, the % correct beaming is used. \version "2.11.49" \new PianoSta

Re: beams

2008-07-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 03.07.2008 um 15:47 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, So is this a bug? Looks like it... or is there some way around this? Did my solution (posted earlier) not work for you? Kieren. not with the cross-staff slur ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Bus error in 2.11.50 on OS X

2008-07-06 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 06.07.2008 um 19:13 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: After reading this post I downloaded 2.11.50 and installed on my eMac G4 running OSX 10.4 and ran a lilypond file without errors. Is it only an issue on Intel macs or on Leopard, perhaps? Jon Mark Pim wrote: Thanks, that seems to have solved

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: 2008/7/1, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've approved the snippet using the first example (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490). This works perfectly. Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - the

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian, There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from within lilypond: 1. change the NoteHead stencil to the text interface: \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian, There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from within lilypond: 1

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.07.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Uri Sala: It is a bit more convoluted than that. I will try to make myself clearer: I want to write 3 against 5. In this case, since 3 is smaller than 5, it has to use a rhythmic unit twice longer than the unit associated with 5. Let's be over-explicit and ca

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
ke to avoid if possible. Sorry to be so demanding, but isn't this what lilypond should be about? To output exactly what you want? Cheers, Uri On MondayJul 7, at MonJul 7|23:44 , James E. Bailey wrote: Am 07.07.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Uri Sala: It is a bit more convoluted than that. I w

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
ke to avoid if possible. Sorry to be so demanding, but isn't this what lilypond should be about? To output exactly what you want? Cheers, Uri On MondayJul 7, at MonJul 7|23:44 , James E. Bailey wrote: Am 07.07.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Uri Sala: It is a bit more convoluted than that. I w

sustainOn

2008-07-08 Thread James E. Bailey
See, this is why I should subscribe to the development list… While changing sustainDown/sustainUp to sustainOn/sustainOff makes sense in the lilypond internals, it really doesn't make sense musically. No one is going to confuse placing a sustain marking above the staff. They don't go there,

Arbitrary changes?

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 09.07.2008 um 09:00 schrieb hhpmusic: Hi, I downloaded 2.11.51, and there are two problems: 1) some syntaxes are changed such as \sustainOn and \sustainOff. I have no time to re-read the manuals, but the news page has no indication of it at the top. So \setTextCresc and \setHairpinCresc

Arbitrary changes?

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
I spoke too soon, I think. Would this work as an acceptable changelog? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-06/msg00266.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

dynamic spanner help

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
I've not understood this for a while, and I figure I should probably ask about it. When I have dynamics in a variable, the text spanner shows up and I can't get rid of it. \version "2.11.51" \layout { \context { \type "Engraver_group" \name VocalDynamics \alias Voice

dynamic spanner help

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Also, the \crescTextCresc and \dimTextDim work like there's a \once in front of them when they're in the variable. \version "2.11.51" \layout { \context { \type "Engraver_group" \name VocalDynamics \alias Voice \consists Text_engraver \consists "Dynamic_engraver"

Re: Frech trills and slurs. A bug?

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 09.07.2008 um 12:46 schrieb Francesco Spiga: I have a problem which was also reported by Franz-Rudolf Kuhnen some times ago. Lilypond places by default articulation symbols below the slurs. So, if I try to mark a trill by a "+" (like in ancient French music), and above the note with tri

Re: convert-ly...

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 08.07.2008 um 21:09 schrieb Graham Percival: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:01:03 +0200 Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op dinsdag 8 juli 2008, schreef Stan Sanderson: ...is not my friend. Mac OS 10.4.11, PPC, Lilypond 2.11.51 Are you using Python 2.4 or newer? I thought configure

Re: dynamic spanner help

2008-07-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 09.07.2008 um 23:34 schrieb Patrick McCarty: Hi James, On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:25 AM, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've not understood this for a while, and I figure I shou

Re: Adding a staff in the middle of a piece

2008-07-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 09.07.2008 um 17:07 schrieb Francesco Spiga: I'm sorry for my telegraph-style question: is it possible to start a piece with, e.g. 3 staves ad add one more some measures later? Thank you F. There are several ways, you can use \stopStaff and \startStaff or search the manuals for french

staff switches

2008-07-12 Thread James E. Bailey
Is it possible to have staff switches in a separate variable? I was thinking somthing along the lines of voiceA = \relative { c4 d e g, f e e' d } voiceAswitches = { s2. \change Staff = "LH" s4 s2 \change Staff = "RH" s2 } \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "RH" \v

Re: staff switches

2008-07-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 13.07.2008 um 05:52 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, Here's a perfect reason to use \context Voice instead of — or rather, in addition to — \new Voice: Once the Voice context has been created and populated with the notes, you are then able to "cram the staff switch information"

nopc

2008-07-13 Thread James E. Bailey
I actually needed to look into the documentation to turn off point-and- click 'cause I accidentally deleted my global file that has it, and I see various options. in section 6.2.1, #(define (nopc) (ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)) ... #(nopc) { c'4 } and in 6.1.5 noPointAndClick = #(def

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 14.07.2008 um 04:21 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: James E. Bailey wrote: in 3.1.3 #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) The last one is apparently deprecated. Why? The first two are only interesting if you have your own standard include file with

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread James E. Bailey
b Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool): Yeah, it was very difficult. Exactly 3 clicks in LilyPondTool since years. (LilyPond > Source editing > Toggle point-and-click) I don't think we should crowd the LilyPond command namespace with editor features. Bert James E. Bailey wrote: Am 14.07.

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread James E. Bailey
with the editor. Bert James E. Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is really crowding the LilyPond namespace with a feature that as far as I know is in one tool attached to a specific editor. I mean, if that's the case, why have any editor features as predefined command

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 14.07.2008 um 12:28 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: On 7/14/08 3:24 AM, "Nicolas Sceaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le 14 juil. 08 à 04:21, Carl Sorensen a écrit : I propose some new predefined functions: \pointAndClickOn pointAndClickOn = #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #t) and \point

Re: How to join plain + markup text in a single syllable?

2008-07-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 16.07.2008 um 13:35 schrieb Francisco Vila: Hello all, Attached is what I want and what I get; in a single note we have: - last letter of a previous word - an italic apostrophe - first letter of the next word, also italic Not only I cannot join all of this onto a single note, I also obtai

Re: How to join plain + markup text in a single syllable?

2008-07-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 16.07.2008 um 16:45 schrieb Francisco Vila: Thank you, James and Roman, the concat solves the undesired space problem. Now, if several words are in italics, I'm sure there is a better form than to repeat \markup{\italic...} for each syllable. Do you know of any? -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz

Re: I love editor arguments:)

2008-07-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 16.07.2008 um 21:20 schrieb Patrick Horgan: I believe the truth is more along the lines of duckling imprinting-- you know that ducklings imprint on whatever moves first and think that that thing, duck, dog or person, is mommy. We do the same with whatever editor we learned well enough

Re: Shouldn't articulation 'stick' to note-heads?

2008-07-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.07.2008 um 07:10 schrieb George_: hi guys I was wondering if there were a way to make articulation 'stick' to a notehead, no matter where it is? I use 2.11.49 on XP, and I have a two-part melody, the lower voice is to be played staccato, like so: http://www.nabble.com/file/p18501666

Re: Shouldn't articulation 'stick' to note-heads?

2008-07-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.07.2008 um 07:10 schrieb George_: hi guys I was wondering if there were a way to make articulation 'stick' to a notehead, no matter where it is? I use 2.11.49 on XP, and I have a two-part melody, the lower voice is to be played staccato, like so: http://www.nabble.com/file/p18501666

Re: GDP: NR 1.3 Expressive, first draft

2008-07-17 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.07.2008 um 00:28 schrieb Graham Percival: I'm happy to announce the first draft of NR 1.3 Expressive! Thanks go to Patrick. Please proofread this carefully; if you find any mistakes, omissions, or anything that's unclear, please post it here! GDP website: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/

combined time signature

2008-07-17 Thread James E. Bailey
Just out of curiousity, is there way to do either the clef or the time signature for real? \version "2.11.52" { \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Clef #'text = \markup {\musicglyph #"clefs.G" \hspace #-1.7 \musicglyph #"clefs.G"} \override Sta

Re: Cannot move an accent articulation

2008-07-17 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.07.2008 um 18:54 schrieb Marco Caliari: Hi all. Finally (and here I need your help), I would like to move the accent articulation in the second last bar close to the c notehead (as in the fourth last bar), but \override Script #'Y-offset does not seem to work. You need to set the av

Re: Still confused about context vs. new

2008-07-17 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.07.2008 um 22:35 schrieb Patrick Horgan: I see many examples with \context, or \new used in the same place. I've read LM 3.1.1 for example which tells me that if I don't create explicitly a \new Staff or \new Voice, they will be created automatically, and goes on to refer to that as

adding a location to the lilypond path

2008-07-18 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm just curious if it's possible to add a location to my lilypond path. I've managed to build lilypond from source (and it's much faster), and I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to add folder with some \include files that I occasionally or frequently use. Something simple like ~/lil

Re: Lilypond under Leopard

2008-07-19 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 18.07.2008 um 20:05 schrieb Alberto Simões: Hi, Folks No, I am not asking how to install Lilypond in Leopard. I know there are at least two options: - to compile it from the source, using a set of instructions and macports (that installs/reinstalls almost everything) - and another optio

Re: Lilypond under Leopard

2008-07-19 Thread James E. Bailey
Yeah, the broken macports just got me to the concludsion that I should build everything myself (which worked except for netpbm), and the resulting application is *much* faster. Am 19.07.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Eric Knapp: I have successfully compiled lilypond 2.11.50 and 2.11.52 on my mac. It

Re: Lilypond under Leopard

2008-07-19 Thread James E. Bailey
So you know, I can't build the documenation, and I have to turn that off in the configure flags --without-documentation or else my build would fail. Also, see nicolas' excellent directions here http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/index.php/2008/04/10/26 Am 19.07.2008 um 18:17 schrieb Alberto Simões

emacs questions

2008-07-19 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm wondering if anyone here uses emacs on macintosh and how they go about it. I have currently installed the default OSX cli emacs, version 22.11, Emacs.app (version 23.0.0) and Aquamacs Emacs.app (version 22.2.50.2) each gets some things well, and others not so well. First, I have edited my

Re: Short-indent does not seem to work

2008-07-23 Thread James E. Bailey
On 23.07.2008, at 10:02, Arno Rog wrote: L.S. or a large orchestral score I need to repeat the short instrument names on all but the first page. They print fine, but I need some more space to print. Unfortunately, it looks like short-indent (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/us

building docs

2008-07-25 Thread James E. Bailey
I've almost got all of my errors sorted out. Making the documentation fails for me with: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _hebrew_shaper_get_next_cluster Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-hebrew- fc.so Expected in: flat namespace dyld: Symbol no

Re: Variable number of voices on one staff

2008-07-26 Thread James E. Bailey
\oneVoice is still your friend, though. Am 26.07.2008 um 11:14 schrieb Jordan Eldredge: Thank you. Firstly, I understand why my method does not work. I guess what I am asking for is a different method. Secondly, thanks! Here is updated example code. \version "2.10.25" aVoice = \relative

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-26 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't have much time to respond, but he easy way is to download the PPC version, and run it using the command line options. Directions are in the Application Usage for command line usage specific to Mac OSX. Am 25.07.2008 um 03:52 schrieb Carol Viera: Hi, I'm on Mac OS X version 10.5.4 L

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-26 Thread James E. Bailey
I would also add that lilypondtool with jedit is probably the easiest method. Am 25.07.2008 um 03:52 schrieb Carol Viera: Hi, I'm on Mac OS X version 10.5.4 Leopard (Intel processor) and the menu for the Lilypond app has nothing on it but the Lilypond item. Yes, I downloaded the script

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-26 Thread James E. Bailey
7.2008 um 23:24 schrieb Carl Sorensen: James E. Bailey mac.com> writes: I would also add that lilypondtool with jedit is probably the easiest method. Can you give me a hint or two about getting lilypondtool to work with OSX? I'm an OSX newbie, and I haven't been able to get l

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-26 Thread James E. Bailey
Looks like I was mistaken, lilypondtool is for windows. Am 26.07.2008 um 23:24 schrieb Carl Sorensen: James E. Bailey mac.com> writes: I would also add that lilypondtool with jedit is probably the easiest method. Can you give me a hint or two about getting lilypondtool to work w

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