Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-03 Thread Ray Peck
Hi! I'm writing a document on music theory and New Standard Tuning (Robert Fripp's fifths-based guitar tuning). The first version of this was done with Word and Visio (hiss!); the new version is in OpenOffice. I'm adding notation to the new version of the doc (the first version only had fretboa

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>EPS should be fine. Why do you feel that's overkill? I've used EPS in the past, but always found it to be slow and buggy. Perhaps this is no longer true? I also am hoping for a simple workflow more along the lines of copy and paste than "render and import". I also would like to have a single s

Installing Lilypond on Windoze when you already have Cygwin

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
I just tried installing Lilypond on Windoze and find that it installs Cygwin. I already have Cygwin on my machine, and don't want to screw it up. How should I proceed? ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listi

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>ie, a procedure that can't be automated, nor checked, and with no >chance of recovery when (not if) the word processor fails. The >horror... Not at all. OpenOffice's native format is XML. If everything went to hell, I can always get the data out with XSLT or parse it info Jdom and do whatever

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>Oh, wait, you could import the music as bitmaps, but that's probably >not what you meant, right? Yeah. That would be An Abomination. ;-) > 3. It is very likely that contributions to the project I'm > working on will come from people to whom OpenOffice or Word > will be a challenge; TeX is out

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>If you want, I can send you a .sodipodi file. Sure, that would be swell. It would be most useful if you could send a real musical example from Lilypond, plus a very simple drawing example (e.g., a couple lines, a circle, a few characters of text). I'll compare the XML to what I find in OO and s

So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-existing Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-existing Cygwin installation? ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>Maybe you want to read: > >http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html I first read that over 10 years ago, thanks. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
venture begins! -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:41 AM To: Ray Peck Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin? Just run the cygwin installer, selec

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Cool: I got working PDF output. Now: I grepped /usr/doc/lilypond-1.6.5-1/ for "sodipodi" and "SVG" and found nothing. How do I generate SVG output so that I can try it in OO, and where is the code that generates it, so I know what to go hack to fix things?

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>Some people on the list have managed >to do it in Cygwin, but most of the developers prefer Linux. Ah. Thanks. I run Linux at home, but don't have such a machine at work, where I do much of my home work while waiting for ant to build my Java project and Xalan to process my XSLT and hacking in

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Can someone who builds under Cygwin please contact me directly? I don't want to spam the whole list with build issues, especially since building under Cygwin seems to be frowned upon. These are the only warnings from configure: checking kpathsea/kpathsea.h usability... no checking kpathsea/kpaths

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>> Isn't "Denemo" a GUI front end for Lilypond? > >Yes, but it is not "the" GUI. Denemo development has been stagnant for >a year or so now. If you need a GUI, you can try RoseGarden >(rosegarden.sf.net) or Noteedit >(http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html) Thanks. Prob

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
? -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:22 PM To: Ray Peck Cc: 'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Isn't "

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Thanks! We can move this discussion over to lilypond-devel. -Original Message- From: Guido Amoruso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:59 PM To: Ray Peck Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Su

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
>How about using GIMP to capture the images and create any efficient >image file you want to insert into your OpenOffice document? I'm using GIMP for some things, but I want to avoid using pixmaps as much as possible, and I want to be able to edit the pasted-in image afterwards without keeping ex

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
From: Edward Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.pstoedit.net Interesting program! Doesn't help today, but I'm pretty sure that I'll be using it in the future. Thanks! ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/ma

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
>That would be "Insert/Graphic/From File" but you knew that. Yeah. If "insert/graphic/from file" would accept SVG than I'd be cruisin'. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user