lyrics

2001-10-31 Thread Maury Merkin
My foo.ly song [see my other post of this hour] actually has lyrics but I have found that getting the compiler to line up the lyrics with the melody and chords to be nearly impossible. I suppose I'd like to know if that's just so or if others do find that there are some "secrets." Also, I simply

to MIDI or not to MIDI

2001-10-31 Thread Maury Merkin
I'm brand new to Lilypond having just heard of it yesterday for the first time ever. I have several hundred questions but we'll take 'em one at a time. I've got a file foo.ly which compiles with no error messages and 'ly2dvi -P foo.ly' produces the desired foo.ps just as I desire but I can't fig

Re: lyrics

2001-11-01 Thread Maury Merkin
ized" ride to "ri- de" and that lines up everything in an ugly sort of "proper" way. Ain't there a better way to do this? TIA Maury p.s. Laura, thanks for your response. Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "Maury" == Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTEC

More on lyrics (and repeats/stanzas/whatever)

2001-11-01 Thread Maury Merkin
was compile time errors. Any takers? TIA, Maury (who's delighted by LilyPond and can now actually produce legible music!) Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "Maury" == Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maury> I have found that

lilypond-mode with XEmacs

2004-01-28 Thread Maury Merkin
Has anyone gotten lilypond-mode to work with XEmacs? Here are the pertainant lines from my init.el file: begin (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/xemacs/21.4.12/site-packages/lisp/lilypond/" load-path)) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ly$" . lilypond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (autoloa

Re: lilypond-mode with XEmacs

2004-01-29 Thread Maury Merkin
Thank you, Feri!! Of course, it was the capitalization. I am an idiot. I can't thank you enough. I've been struggling with this for days now. Best wishes from Maryland (in the US). Maury On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PR