Trouble compiling 2.3.1

2004-05-20 Thread Jim Sabatke
file `baer-flat-bw.txt' (for text) unreadable : No such file or directory. ./out/introduction.texi:88: @image file `lily-flat-bw.txt' (for text) unreadable : No such file or directory. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affair

Re: Trouble compiling 2.3.1 *solved*

2004-05-20 Thread Jim Sabatke
Jim Sabatke wrote: I'm getting a seemingly endless stream of the following errors. Any idean of what I'm missing? Thanks. Compiling ./out/fdl.texi... ./out/introduction.texi:88: @image file `henle-flat-bw.txt' (for text) unreadabl e: No such file or directory. ./out/intro

Note problems

2004-05-22 Thread Jim Sabatke
all point down? The expample (bagpipe.ly) doesn't have any g, a or b notes on the staff, and they all want to point down. Thanks, -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and go

How do I use this?

2004-05-23 Thread Jim Sabatke
e documentation, but have no idea of how to use it. I've searched the doc's, the web and the lilypond wiki, with no help. Am I trying the right thing? Can anyone help? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons,

How do I force a bar line?

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Sabatke
race-property 'Voice 'Stem 'length 6) #(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Stem 'thickness 1.0) ===>>> \bar "||" \noBreak \partial 64*12 e'8 a'16 \noBreak %% Line: 1 Bar: 1 \dbhg g'4 a'8[ e

Flat beams

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Sabatke
sure what value(s) to set, and how to set them. Can anyone help? Thanks, -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: How do I force a bar line?

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Sabatke
n key time-signature staff-bar )) This changes the order, but the clef and key signs are printed over each other. How do I get the key sign "after" the clef? Thanks, Mats Bengtsson wrote: One trick is to start the piece with \partial 16 s

Grace note beams and stems

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Sabatke
ttom beam. How do I lengthen the stems when the heads are squeezed up too tightly? Thanks, -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. _

Re: Grace note beams and stems

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Sabatke
Stan Sanderson wrote: On May 27, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Jim Sabatke wrote: Two problems with grace note beams: 1. The beams are way too thick for my use. I can get the single grace note flags really thin, but haven't been able to find what to set for the beams. 2. On a beamed grace note set

Re: Flat beams

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Sabatke
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Jim Sabatke writes: Bagpipers are used to reading music with flat beams. The stems should be long, enough to not interfere with the clutter of grace notes. I've done a lot of web research on beams, and various kinds of "concaveness" seem to be something w

Still can't reduce space between beams on grace notes

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Sabatke
I now have the thickness of the beams working right, but I have no idea of how to make the space between them smaller. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup

Re: Note problems

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Sabatke
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Jan Kohnert wrote: Am Samstag, 22. Mai 2004 06:49 schrieb Jim Sabatke: I've just spent about 16 hours straight trying to get some bagpipe music to print out properly. I've used the lilypond bagpipe.ly as a starting point. I am also trying to expand the grace note

Page numbers and taglines

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Sabatke
uot; tagline = "Printed by Lilypond from BMW source" pagenumber = "no" } I also trind pagenumber = no without quotes -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

Auto beams and grace notes

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Sabatke
I hope I haven't missed this in the manual. Auto beams don't seem to work when there are grace notes between the beamed notes. Can this be modified so the notes are beamed? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragon

Re: Still can't reduce space between beams on grace notes

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Sabatke
owever, you are lucky! There's a good example in the Tips and Tricks document on the web page, search for cue-notes.ly. /Mats I hope you don't find my answers too indirect, the intention is to help you learn how to find the answer yourself the next time. Jim Sabatke wrote: I now have t

ly file definitions and layout

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Sabatke
find by example. The closest I could get was: \header { ... } \score { \notes { { notes } } \paper { } } This ignored all header into, but did split the piece into two pages, which didn't happen by the previous method. I'm completely lost. Is there a re

Re: ly file definitions and layout

2004-05-30 Thread Jim Sabatke
Jim Sabatke wrote: Is there a document that describes the layout of an ly file? I've looked for a couple days and haven't found one. I ask this because I can't seem to integrate \score into my files and get expected output. I've followed example files that I've fou

Re: ly file definitions and layout

2004-05-30 Thread Jim Sabatke
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Sunday 30 May 2004 19.14, Jim Sabatke wrote: More specific info: lilypond version 2.3.1 2.3.x is a bit dodgy right now, esp. when it comes to page layout. I recommend you to either use 2.2 or wait until it stabilises. Erik Thank you! I'm downloading 2.2 right now

Re: Help getting started

2004-05-31 Thread Jim Sabatke
o. I understand your frustration. I'm new to this too and I have spend days at a time trying to find little clues for why seeminly simple music doesn't print properly. I'm trying to write a specification language that will translate bagpipe source music notation into lilypond

Line break not working

2004-05-31 Thread Jim Sabatke
beginning of the second line: \bar "|:" %% START_REPEAT_BAR B %% this is printed at the end of the first line, after the "|:" that shouldn't be on the first line \hdbe e'8.[ a'16 ] \hstc cis'16[ a'8. ]

Re: problem installing for SuSe

2004-05-31 Thread Jim Sabatke
sus motherboard Dominique I installed lilypond 2.2.1 on my SuSE 9.0 system. I downloaded: ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.2-1.noarch.rpm mftrace-1.0.31.tar.gz I created an rpm of mftrace with checkinstall, and installed both packages via YaST2. Did you install the fonts package also? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!!

Re: Help getting started

2004-05-31 Thread Jim Sabatke
for people to share solutions to problems, and to begin to document how to do things in lilypond. Lilypond needs an honest to goodness user manual. I don't fault the developers; they are still developing and documenting as best as they can. A good start would be to layout the syntax for b

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread Jim Sabatke
donald_j_axel wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:48:40 -0500 Jim Sabatke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm researching "how do I make a note head smaller" because I need to fit a few more notes on a line to keep it from Many techniques can be found in the documentation

Re: strange problem whith pagenumber

2004-06-03 Thread Jim Sabatke
ideas? [lilypond 2.3.3. / Linux] Wolfgang Wolfgang Mechsner Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL www.wolfgang-mechsner.de - ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-03 Thread Jim Sabatke
ntext" - (this is present, but it has a link to Piano Staves, for some reason). This is a task that doesn't require all that much knowledge of how Lilypond works. Someone just needs to plow through Documentation/user/*.itely (in the source archive) and add lots of relevant @cindex

Re: Auto beams and grace notes

2004-06-04 Thread Jim Sabatke
your application, so it might be worth to introduce an additional option in LilyPond. /Mats Jim Sabatke wrote: I hope I haven't missed this in the manual. Auto beams don't seem to work when there are grace notes between the beamed notes. Can this be modified so the notes are beamed? -- J

Re: Help

2004-06-05 Thread Jim Sabatke
Don Skoog wrote: I've downloaded Lillypond from the Fink Website but cannot get it to run. How do I start the silly thing? Don Skoog What OS are you running? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: Vertical spacing between systems

2004-06-06 Thread Jim Sabatke
4) #(set-paper-size "a4") linewidth = #(* mm 190) } I've been putting it in the \score { \notes { \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 4) section, and it seems to work there. I will supply a more complete score if you can't get it w

What are the "rules" for repeats?

2004-06-06 Thread Jim Sabatke
I've been coding a program to convert BMW bagpipe music files into lilypond format. I've followed repeat examples and am have not been using \repeat for repeated sections that do not have alternative endings. What is the "approved" format for using repeats? Thanks, --

Re: What are the "rules" for repeats?

2004-06-07 Thread Jim Sabatke
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Jim Sabatke wrote: I've been coding a program to convert BMW bagpipe music files into lilypond format. I've followed repeat examples and am have not been using \repeat for repeated sections that do not have alternative endings. What is the "approved&qu