Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi all, there's a lot of emails in this thread so i'll post a general reply. First, i was puzzled myself that q only repeats chords. I didn't know that it was intentional (missed the discussion, sorry) and i was going to suggest to change this behaviour myself. I understand Marc's argument abou

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:37 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> However, the idea of creating another shortcut (p seems to be a good >> name) appeals to me. I would design p to repeat chords as well as >> pitches. > > When writing c q p, what d

Re: Good news, and thanks to all of you!

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Luca Rossetto Casel wrote: > > Dear Lilyfriends, > > I'm very happy to announce you that I've now finished my Ph.D. > research project: the critical edition of Tommaso Traetta's > /Enea nel Lazio/ (1760), a beautiful (and mastodo

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:03 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> >>> For something like RhythmicStaff where pitches get squashed anyway, >>> it might come in handy. It would _not_, however, repeat chords, >>> since you can't magically ch

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> Now i'm *totally* puzzled. What do you mean by "programs"? Do you >> mean that allowing standalone durations, like c2 d 4 4 => c2 d2 d4 d4, > > The first 4 in there is not s

Re: LilyPondTool 2.14.9 release (the last for the foreseeable future)

2012-09-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
Dear Bertalan, i've hardly used LilyPondTool - Frescobaldi's interface seemed more intuitive to me - but i do appreciate your work! Our community had benefited greatly from LilyPondTool. best wishes, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Replacing the r1 glyph

2012-09-25 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Oscar, On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Oscar Dub wrote: > I'm trying to typeset a score that uses the notation shown in the attached > image to represent whole rests. > > As I see it there are two stages to achieving this in LilyPond: > – Creating the necessary glyph (I assume the simplest w

Re: Four Bars per Line/System, again :)

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, bthom wrote: > Hope you can clarify why > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=838 > > produces code snippet > > but > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=838 > > produces typeset result. ? they are just two different links, pointing to two separate webp

Re: piano music with lilypond

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I want to share some thoughts about piano music with you. > [...] > > Lilypond does in my opinion ~70% perfect job, but takes too much control. > The score looks pretty beautiful at the first glance, but to make it perfekt > and complete, you

"Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, one of the things that i find inconvenient in reading Lily syntax is its sequential nature. For example, << { a4 b c d e f g a e a g f } { e4 a g f c2 e d8 c f4 d2 } >> it's hard to read the harmonies from the code, because voices are separate. I know abou

Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Nils Gey wrote: > I have to see if Frescobaldi has an internal representation of durations > and time signatures/bar length, but I guess not. This way the conversion > from parallel back to sequential is a bit tricky since you need to keep track > of the current

Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > On 09/26/2012 12:48 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: >> >> What about editors like Frescobaldi having the ability to convert >> "regular lilypond" to "horizontal scroll" and back? E.g. the code >> above would be displayed as (view

Re: piano music with lilypond

2012-09-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > @the current threat regarding parallel music. [...] please reply in appropriate thread - there's so many emails these days that it's already hard not to get lost :) Janek PS it's thread, not threat - the second word has completely different meaning, an

Re: Pictures on note heads for young children

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:49 PM, LasseFair wrote: > Does any of you know of any way of setting up completely custom note heads > from bitmaps or svg's in lilypond?? I'd start by looking at the last example here (if you click on it, you'll be able to see the source): http://lilypond.org/doc/v2

Re: Change clef glyph

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Platonov wrote: > I'd like to customize or add some clef glyphs (e.g. old style c clefs instead > of > the current ones). Presumably it can be done using fontforge, If you want to do this just for yourself, you may try editing the vector font files created by Lily

Re: Text Spanner, with Text left-aligned to bar-line, and spanner line right-aligned to subsequent bar-line?

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
David, have i mentioned that you are a true Scheme wizard? :) Janek On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:02 PM, David Nalesnik wrote:\ > Congratulations! I think you'll like it--there are a lot of > improvements there over 2.14. > > Anyway, hopefully this will do the trick. __

Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, sorry for delay... On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> Disabling automatic line wrapping and using horizontal scrolling is the key >> :) >> Of course, it wouldn't probably make sense to *store* music in this format

Re: lilypond 2.16.0 and Windows 8 (enterprise)

2012-10-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > Just an FYI, I was able to download install and run LP's test file > with no problems, on Windows 8.x (Enterprise Edition), I am not sure > if that is really significant vs Standard Edition but anyway. > > Just thought I'd share this. than

Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-10-03 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Nils Gey wrote: > I thought of a solution. > [...] > Summary: It is totally possible, but I can't do it right now. So, 50 bucks will have to wait :) I'm actually surprised that noone pledged any additional bounty... Janek _

"Parallel music view" misunderstanding - an attempt to explain things

2012-10-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, there was a problem in "Parallel music view" thread on -user, beginning with this message http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-10/msg00054.html. I was worried about the situation and i decided to talk with David via phone - it turned out that i misunderstood his emails. I hope

Re: How to reserve more space for fermata mark (to prevent large vertical shifts)

2012-10-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > \relative c''' { > R1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } > a4(^"rit." b c) r > } > > Does anyone know a way to make the mark reserve more horizontal space > (i.e. shift the following notes to the right) so that the ferm

Re: Nice layout-feature

2012-10-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:27 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: >> \key ... doesn't work this way. What a pity! > > Doesn't work by set/override. would it be feasible to make it work this way? (you don't have to write a full explanation - i'm just curious) Janek __

Re: glissando and how to create concise code

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Brad Smith wrote: > When should you > use ly:pitch and when should you use ly:music? (Is there a place in > the documentation that is good for learning these things?) I'm no expert on music functions, but i'd say that ly:music? is used when the argument would be a

Re: Tuplets in Orthodox Liturgical Music

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:17 AM, The Doctor (Michael D) wrote: > I am using the gregorian to arrange Eastern Orthodox chant music. I am > working on music from the eight tones (which has a lot of 'recitatives') and > would like to be able to use tuplets to 'group' and indicate notes and thus > syl

Re: Saving Input File

2012-10-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/09/2012 03:08 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: >> I have searched the manuals and on-line for a solution to my >> problem. I am using Word 2010 (wrong?) to write the input file. >>

Re: A whole lot of e-mails

2012-10-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:38:13PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> Well, yes. The Reply-To header is set so that replies go to the >> sender rather than the list, so one must "reply all" to include >> the list which results in some

Re: System/System spacing

2012-10-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Adrian Oehm wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but can someone please tell me where to > find info/examples on (or explain how to) increasing the system/system > spacing. > Any pointers would be great (I've been scrolling through the manuals all > aftern

tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, David Nalesnik's function correcting tuplet number placement on kneed beams throws an error with Lilypond 2.17.5 (it works with 2.16.0): Drawing systems.../home/janek/desk/tuplet_numers_on_kneed_beams.ily:44:26: In procedure * in expression (* 0.5 (ly:grob-property beam #)): /home/janek/desk/

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > commit d8dfa746ead381a80901106b9c9b079dc9b5d004 > Author: Mike Solomon > Date: Fri Aug 31 09:27:17 2012 +0200 > > Uses a heuristic to determine if chord tremolos collide with accidentals. > > This heuristic makes several assumption

Re: Bar numbers for broken measures

2012-10-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > The piece I'm working on has a repeat that ends in the middle of a measure, > with a line break at the same point: > > I would like to have a bar number, perhaps in parentheses, at the beginning > of the second line, sorry, no time to

Re: predicate pitch-or-music? - getting rid of ##{ #} ?

2012-10-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2012/10/19 David Kastrup : >> Thomas Morley writes: >>> Calling the function for a single pitch doesn't work, if ##{ #} are >>> omitted, but it'll work if the predicate would be ly:pitch? >>> I don't understand this behaviour. >> >> Welcome

Re: Redistributing Emmentaler .otf files

2012-10-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to redistribute the Emmentaler .otf files as part of a GPLed LaTeX > package. > I recall reading that Emmentaler is GPLed with the font exception (meaning > that works created using the fonts aren't implicitely covered by the

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-22 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:04 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > On 16 oct. 2012, at 18:49, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> commit d8dfa746ead381a80901106b9c9b079dc9b5d004 >>> Author: Mike Solomon >>> Da

Re: predicate pitch-or-music? - getting rid of ##{ #} ?

2012-10-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: >> Let me take the opportunity to express my deepest gratefulness for all >> your work, not only for developing LilyPond, but for all the time you >> spend on the user-list, answering/solving all kind of >> questions/pr

Re: predicate pitch-or-music? - getting rid of ##{ #} ?

2012-10-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:38 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> That's entirely selfish since I know you are reading the list. I write >>> four answers, and you turn them into twen

Re: pitch name transpose into numeric pr key signature

2012-10-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
David, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:02 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Tim Roberts writes: > >> MING TSANG wrote: >> >> >> This is my third post on the same subject. First time on Oct 14, >> Second time on Oct 19. In the past, I get reply on the same day, >> and sometime 2 to 3 day later. I

Re: Problem with remove bar number

2012-10-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:16 PM, wrote: > Hello > > using version 2.14.1 [...] please try latest stable version (2.16.0). best, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
Jay, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Jay Hamilton wrote: > Janek- > I'm not going to do that [upgrade to 2.16]. Here's a few reasons why. > I've been using lilypond since some kind of 1 version. Some of the > stable versions have been baby steps and easy to accommodate and understand. > M

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > At any rate, in LilyPond 2.16 you _can_ write the above as > rinforzamf = > #(make-dynamic-script > #{ \markup \line { \left-align \normal-text \whiteout \italic "rinforza" > \hspace #0 > \whiteout

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:13 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > LilyPond is supposed to > be useful without having to extend it. > >> In other words, an a-priori refusal of Scheme isn't helpful if you >> want to explore the capabilities of LilyPond. > > If you want to _extend_ them. LilyPond is nowhere n

Re: Decrescendo on accented whole note

2012-10-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Richard Rohrich wrote: > The following results in a crescendo to forte on dis1: > > cis2. cis4 | dis1->\f | R1*2 | R1*2 \bar "|." I don't quite see the decrescendo, but anyway, try this: { cis2.\< cis4 | dis1->\f\> <>\p | R1*2 | R1*2 \bar "|." } or this: {

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: >[...] > This is the first time I've answered a question on the list That's great! I find your answer clear and helpful - hopefully Mark will like it, too :) > but I don't think I'd be out of line by asking you to use tiny examples in > the

Re: Changing program defaults

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > That's really OK in my case--no one else I know uses LilyPond. :-P You never know what will happen in the future :) Anyway, i wouldn't do it. Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: A documentation suggestion, was: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
+1 for updating documentation. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, james wrote: > Perhaps there is a much simpler solution. Notation reference, 1.3.1 is where > I got the example which I have been using since at least 2.12, because > centering such a new dynamic is probably rarer than having it l

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote: > Dear LilyPond users, > > I have found the recent debate about the difficulty of using LilyPond > interesting and would like to offer my experience, as someone who has > been using it for about six months. I apologise if this is a bit >

Re: Modified laissez vibrer ties

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > Is there a way to extend laissez vibrer ties so that they stop just short of > the barline, > as in the attached example? I can't seem to find a way that doesn't involve > manually adjusting control points. You may consider using a trick: c

Re: Modified laissez vibrer ties

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > I did consider that; the problem is those ties go _over_ the barline instead > of stopping just short, so they'd still need to be adjusted manually. Not if you scale the durations: { r2 2*7/8 ~ \hideNotes q2*1/8 \unHideNotes R1 } but i admit

Re: A documentation suggestion, was: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:09 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> +1 for updating documentation. > > Would make sense for the bug squad to register the proposal. I don't > think it would be suitable in the proposed form but that does not mean > we shoul

Re: Quick comment on usability

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:57 AM, James Harkins wrote: > Actually not a complaint! But inspired by the thread on upgrading vs not > upgrading, where it was suggested that LP has become inherently more complex > and harder to use, even for simple typesetting. > > [...] > > I just wanted to mention i

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, sorry for delay, i was very busy... On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: > But the top part of the example shown uses an include-file. > That is not "tiny", anything can happen there. So I would add > to the rules for a tiny example no use of include files. You mean \in

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:03 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > > You mean > > \include "english.ly" > > in the page about tiny examples? Actually, english.ly is a file > > bundled with Lilypond, which allows to spell note names with englis

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Wim, Please reply to the whole list, so that others might benefit from our discussion. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: > The other discussion would be: Are you going to use the Tiny Examples as a > way of showing small pieces of code doing some specific action? Is tha

Re: Hello everyone!

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:51 PM, soundsfromsound wrote: > I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. My name is Ben and I am a > composer based out of Boston, MA (USA) and I am an active LilyPond user. In > my opinion, LilyPond is the best music engraving program out there and I'm >

Re: increase vertical space

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Eluze wrote: > On 10/30/2012 11:43 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > if you want to affect only a single line of the score, use > > \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn" > #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-distances . (30))) > >

Re: Polyphony

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > how to have the notation for the middle voice move from the > treble staff to the bass staff and back (This to avoid ledger lines.) The > online documentation (Notation Reference 2.2.1) provides instruction for all > pitch notations in t

Re: Nearly there

2012-11-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > If this were a video the Hallelujah Course would be playing in the > background! :) > For about an hour I added code and regularly checked the results by clicking > the Frescobaldi Lillypond icon. Each time the music appeared. Th

Re: Dashed Pseudo-Bar Line

2012-11-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > I'm transcribing a piece that has a dashed bar line in the middle of a bar, > in only one staff in a system. The dashed line is marking a change of > phrase. Is there an easy way to do that? I think I know how to do it by > subverting the bar

Re: Lilypond cheat sheat

2012-11-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Noeck wrote: > Dear Lilypond users and developers, > > many years ago I made a cheat sheet for Lilypond, > [...] > http://arsantiqua-karlsruhe.de/images/pdf/LilypondCheatsheet.pdf WOW!! It's great! The way you use color and present alternatives and variants... a

Re: Lilypond cheat sheat

2012-11-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> I think both cheat sheets nicely complement each other. > > What about adding both of them to the lilypond distribution? +1 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gn

Re: Lilypond in path on Windows?

2012-11-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > commit 917dab12e7a838f1f153e7c57fb921c0b19b9bc2 > Author: Phil Holmes > Date: Fri Jan 6 17:23:15 2012 + > > Stops Windows PATH being changed > > Such messages, and this one in particular can annoy me immensly.

Re: Editing slur markings in LilyPond

2012-11-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:24 AM, soundsfromsound wrote: > Can someone weigh in and let me know if LilyPond offers similar slur > parameters that can be controlled by the user? Or is this editing slightly > limited? You definitely want to know about \shape function. If you're using development ve

Re: Adding a clef mid-measure

2012-11-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:18 AM, soundsfromsound wrote: > Sorry, yes you are right! I had pasted from an MusicXML conversion - I > haven't edited anything out of it yet. > > Are you saying that this is somehow hindering me from being able to use a > mid-measure clef change? I'm confused. How shou

helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
% Hi people, % here's what i want to do: << { \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn" #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-distances . (30))) a a a a } { b b b b } >> % the override is very long, so i wanted to create a helper music function. I tried this staff

Re: Supporting LilyPond development financially (was: Editing slur markings in LilyPond)

2012-11-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > soundsfromsound writes: > >> Do you guys have a PayPal donation link or something where perhaps I >> could send a little something your way? I couldn't find anything on >> the website... :) > > Then I need to rethink my strategies. ...and w

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 120, Issue 37

2012-11-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > I apologize, my brain is a bit tired - it's almost 4am here :) I think I > typed the word forum because it was fresh on my mind since I visit the > Nabble "forum" archive for the mailing list. Sorry for the confusion. I > should rest my b

Re: Supporting LilyPond development financially

2012-11-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi friends, On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >Janek wrote: >> Imagine that next month David receives 10 times the money >> he usually gets: we'd have David covered for next ~10 months, > > More like the next 6 months. [snip explanation] ok, i'm fine with that. And i definitel

Re: Supporting LilyPond development financially

2012-11-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Well, I don't feel a *conflict* situation here, but that may be > founded in me born in the "wrong" piece of earth ;-) > > If there really *is* a conflict/misunderstanding here, the > concerning parties *should* try to solve it: via private mail,

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > First, let's assume 2.16 (the current development version will not > accept the above syntax of \overrideProperty even in the first variant). Yes. I haven't made the switch yet. > Then inside of # itself, like with #'((alignement-distances

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2012/11/9 Janek Warchoł : >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > [...) >> Sorry for being grumpy - i'm frustrated with some other things, for >> example the fact that all my data got de

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> Well, i don't quite understand why >> >> manualBeam = >> #(define-music-function >> (parser location beg-end) >> (pair?) >>#{ >> \once \ov

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't doanything

2012-11-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" >> I had a 2-week old backup, and i managed to recover some files created >> after the backup (unfortunately it seems that SSD drives fragment the >> data

Re: lilyglyphs 0.2 - First 'official' release

2012-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > I'm happy (and also proud) to be able to announce a new release of my > lilyglyphs LaTeX package. > While I label it version 0.2 I am convinced that it is the first release > that is really useable, so I consider this the initial 'public' release

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> You did not copy and paste valid LilyPond code into #{ #}. You replaced >>> a constant in a constant list by a

Re: helper function that should take a list argument doesn't do anything

2012-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> What really annoys me is the fact that rm has no reasonable safeguard. >> [...] i'd like to see a safeguard against deleting too many files > > rm is not a file manager. I do larger renami

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:25 AM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > I'll keep you posted for sure. Say, do you suppose that this boxed notation > utility could be implemented sooner (and perhaps with more powerful > features) in LilyPond if funding/support increased? Well, i think the situation is like th

Re: error: bad grob property path

2012-11-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > 2.17.6 > > I found several threads about this but the discussion doesn't give me any > ideas > as to what to change. > > ../common22.ily:83:12: error: bad grob property path > \override > Staff #'fontSize = #-2 You need to use \s

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, you seem to use some very strange quotation style. Please use regular quotation style (i.e. your text without > marks, each quotation level has one > more). On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:44 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > > Janek Warchoł-2 wrote >> - contributing to Lily your

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> You will want someone who is sensitive to Cyrillic to Latin and who >> can manage the difficulties of the dense use of diacritics in Czech >> set which are significant. Is Polish relevant? > > Interestingly, no. There aren't any Polish o

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
(i cannot resist my lilypond addiction...) On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > But I probably won't touch [online tutorial] until I reformat it as a PDF > version. There > had been some valuable comments on this list right after the first 'release' > of the tutorial - which stil

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > "Music Engraving on Metal Plates": > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345o3Wu95Qo That's awesome! However, despite the fact that this man is truly skilled, there are some imperfections. For example http://youtu.be/345o3Wu95Qo?t=2m23s - the eight

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > you need to have a variety of rule sets (at least 2: chromatic and tonal), > you need to be able to switch arbitrarily between the two (e.g. some music > may have tonal parts and atonal parts). +1 I had encountered a piece that nee

Re: collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Werner, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > consider this real-life example (omitting the unimportant voices). > [..] > > There is an ugly clash between the two beams. Due to the cross-staff > beam, this is sort-of expected. > > What can I do to improve the formatting? I

Re: Functional analysis symbols

2013-02-25 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > did anybody do some functional analysis with LilyPond (I'm talking about > printing the results of course, not the act of analysis itself)? > The attached image is done with an ancient version of Finale, where I had > bought an analy

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > ryanmichaelmcclure writes: >> Let those who want to have freedom use their OS, and those who don't >> care use their OS. > > Those who don't care will not actively help Free Software including > LilyPond, so it is in LilyPond's best interes

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Jim Long wrote: > Thanks for this tip, and also to Xavier for mentioning > \partcombine. It simplified the code nicely. > > I modified the combined trombone score to show all four parts > on one staff. > > The code looks much cleaner now. Yes, it's a nice ex

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Adam Spiers writes: >>> I just blogged about this: >>> >>> http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-nothing-from-the-avid-sibelius-saga/ >> >> Well, I see some f

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Jim Long wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Janek Warcho?? wrote: >> >> Yes, it's a nice example and i wouldn't hesitate to post it in that >> discussion. I don't see it there; would you like me to post it? > > Thanks for your kind comments. >

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-03-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > As for demonstrations, you might be interested in the attachment. It > contains a small git repository (13 commits) with Lily sources of a > choir part from 3rd movement of Antonin Dvorak's Stabat Mater. [...] Apparently

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > This is a great idea. What'd I'd recommend is doing a "natural" version and > a version with lots of tweaks. > If you define all the tweaks in a separate file, then all you need to do is > sub that file with one that has empty defini

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 04.03.2013 15:16, schrieb Janek Warchoł: >> For example, take a look at >> https://github.com/janek-warchol/eja-mater-demonstration . > > Sorry for not answering your first post about this. The archive with the > repo

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi all, i was very surprised by Marc's suggestion to revert his barline interface commit. I'm pretty sure that everyone regards Marc's (and Harm's) work in this area as very valuable and noone thinks of deleting it at all! What I see are two issues: a) should we change the character that produc

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Marc, On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Am 06.03.2013 17:47, schrieb Janek Warchoł: >> i was very surprised by Marc's suggestion to revert his barline >> interface commit. I'm pretty sure that everyone regards Marc's (and >> Harm's) wor

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > I had it in my brain that Lilypond had a simple switch to enable the > pseudo-handwritten font and engraving style that one often sees in jazz and > stage band music, but after a lengthy search last night, I now wonder if I > was hallucinating.

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:56 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> Similarly to Marc i'd very much like to see LilyPond automatically end >> pieces with final barline. > > No question about that: of course I'd also always like LilyPond to do > the

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
quivalent to a definition: > \defineBarLine "|!." #'("|!." "" "|!.") > If you want a different definition you would have to write it, of course. sounds interesting. I think David suggests something similar. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Marc

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:45 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Marc Hohl writes: >> No – I still would prefer if LilyPond draws the final bar line without >> having to explicitely tell her. > > Take a look at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches> > > I really would

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:06 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > The idea is that \relative { ... } (namely \relative used without an > explicit reference pitch) uses the first note inside as the reference > pitch. That is, if the first note happens to be written as fis'' it > will sound as fis'' (absolute

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> I really would not like to have to tell LilyPond for every single >>> fragment to not use a final bar line. >> >> Could you explain what you didn't like in my suggestion that said "if >> the music is more than 3 bars long, use a "|."

Re: lecker lek-ker in "old" German lyrics

2013-03-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Klaus Föhl wrote: > Hello, > > Some German lyrics from before the times of Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung > feature ck between two syllables. Without Hyphen it is "lecker", with hyphen > it is "lek-ker". Using lec -- ker or lek -- ker ( on purpose not le -- cker

Re: missing bars

2013-03-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Katie Ganem wrote: > I tried copying it into a new file, but it goes through the motions, > says that it successfully compiled and then shows nothing. > Does anyone know what could cause this? This may happen if you define your music variables but don't actually us

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