Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/17 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we can have a -dmidi-extension=mid, and change the default for the > Windows binary. Another feature that would be greatly appreciated (once again, this is an idea from the French list) would be the ability to define separate output paths for midi

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/18 Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > and if you are using makefiles, lilypond don't have to solve that > problem, you could just as easily add an mv-line in the makefile. If we all were using makefiles (including the newbies on Win32), then we wouldn't be having this discussion at all :-)

Re: horizontally aligning columns in \fill-line

2008-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/19 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Cool, I just submitted your solution to the LSR. Looks cool indeed, though it doesn't seem to work with 2.10 :( Approved and tagged as version-specific anyway. > The problem with that approach is that it will really leave no space between > su

Re: Lyrics to rests?

2008-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/19 Adam Orris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, Greetings, > I want to place lyrics with a rest. Can I do this, or do I need to > use a _\markup and then manually move the text so that it aligns > vertically with the rest of the lyrics? In the example below, I want > the second "1" to line u

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/19 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Valentin offered a bounty a year ago; I don't know if that's still > valid. A certain developer with the initial HWN even said that > it was a "good idea" half a year ago. :) It certainly is. I was hesitating to bring this up here, but thanks for

Re: Lyrics to rests?

2008-05-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/20 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Valentin Villenave wrote: >> You are using explicit durations here; > > No! The \addlyrics construct copies the durations from the music, i.e. any > durations specified > explicitly in the lyrics are ignored. Oh gosh,

Re: Error when trying to install LilyPond under kubuntu

2008-05-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/19 Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I tried to install LilyPond using the command "sh > lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh". 2008/5/20 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You have to replace the X.Y.Z with the actual version number of the file you > downloaded. Maybe we'd better change the inst

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 padovani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is there a way to put the header, layout and block values as variables? I have encountered the same problem, and couldn't find any workaround. This is a feature I'd be very much interested in having. Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you just want the full measure rests to stay on the middle line but the > directions of stems, > slurs, ... to always be upwards in your top voice, you can also revert only > the specific setting > related to the full measure rests, see > http://l

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As far as I can see in the source code, there is no support to assign a > \header block to a variable. > However, for \paper and \layout it should work fine. If I remember correctly, it only works for simple definition (e.g. not \context \consists st

Re: Doc addition: TextSpanner vs. crescendoSpanner

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Valentin, > > I'm not the only guy who tries to make a crescendo spanner with a > TextSpanner, whereas setting crescendoSpanner (and optionally > crescendoText) is often more suitable, as shown in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think you remember correctly: Indeed! It even works with mylayout = \layout { \context{ \Voice \remove "Stem_engraver" } } Thanks for making this point; a whole new world of possibilities has just appeared to me... Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Daniel Boronka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am using > \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > to remove empty staves. This works for all lines except the first line, Have a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=436 for example. Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, this snippet talks about the first line of the second staff, > which is not shown in the image (because that's the second score in the > snippet)... Maybe it would be a good idea to wrap a <<...>> around the two > staff groups? The

Re: Template for 4 total elements

2008-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/28 plasmacarwash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Jay, you might be interested in having a look at the following links: > 1. The Vocal melody line. > 2. The Lyrics http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=template+vocal > 3. Notation chords for guitar and > 4. Fretboard images http://lsr.dsi.unimi.i

Re: include libraries

2008-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/29 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > since I work with lilypond, I've made some libraries with a lots of > user-defined commands. Now I would like to know: > is it possible to include these files automatically in any of my > lilypondfiles, without the "\include"-command? You can add you

Re: Barlines in a StaffGroup, using polymetric notation.

2008-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/29 Jethro Van Thuyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When using polymetric notation, is there a possibility to apply \bar ":" > only to one staff, without seeing it appear on the other staves? Yes. The barlines are printed by a plugin called "Default_bar_line_engraver". By default this plugin hand

Re: note head in denominator - snippet doesn't work

2008-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/30 Gilles THIBAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps a bug ? Looks like a regression to me. Mats, can you confirm before I add it to the tracker? Thanks, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: note head in denominator - snippet doesn't work

2008-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/30 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The same problem appears in 2.10 and 2.11. It's really weird, since the same > markup works > well in other places, even when typeset using the same stencil function, > ly:text-interface::print > as the following example shows. I cannot see any other

Re: contribute paper.scm

2008-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 hhpmusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank someone, who pointed out the Wikipedia. I'm attaching > my paper.scm, with most of the sizes copied from the page. Some may perhaps > never be used in music output, but I added them as a preparation for > accidental use. Hope it will be useful! Great

Re: two dynamics contexts and moving my headers

2008-05-31 Thread 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, Perhaps we could help you more specifically if you posted some code... As for the dyna

Re: What does this error mean??

2008-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 Vine Linux Beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, I'm using lilypond 2.10.33-1 on Vine Linux 4.2 Version. > > Running lilypond, I've got this error. Should I Install something from > Internet?? > > >> error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot handle TLS data You might

Re: LSR octavation function

2008-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 Jay Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ugh! I'm learning. Here's a quick fix that seems to work: ... And you're learning faster than me! :-) The LSR snippet has now been updated. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: Re : contribute paper.scm

2008-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here you are :-) Sorry, I should have checked the patch before sending it. I'm not sure why the following has been modified: (define-safe-public (set-global-staff-size sz) "Set the default staff size, where SZ is thought to be in PT." (let* ((current-mod

Re: Re : contribute paper.scm

2008-06-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/1 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - have haipeng as the author, you can be the committer. > - describe just the contents of the patch in the message. OK. I hesitated to do that because: - I didn't know Haipeng's full name, - I didn't know if I had to specify his mail address (wou

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-06-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, After a couple weeks of (hard) work, a new (special) issue of the "LilyPond Report" is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-10 This issue is entirely dedicated to Algorithmic Composition. It regroups some pieces of information I found in various papers, on

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Really, all I would like is to have the dynamics centered between the two > piano staves. Try: > \layout { > \context { > \type "Engraver_group" > \name Dynamics >

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread 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 difference AFAIK is that \context allows you to tap into an existing cont

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 Philip Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've tried installing 3 versions, the most recent to the stable and another > older version but non of them will start. I can see that it is running in the > back when I see it on the Windows Task Manager but the program won't run > except > hogging up t

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 Philip Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks for the reply, Valentin. But no luck. I couldn't get the program to > run. I can't even see any text editor running. I don't know what is wrong. Just open an editor (notepad.exe, if you haven't anything better), type some code in it: { c'

Re: Clef change and rest colliding

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/3 Benedict Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a clef change at the end of a line colliding with an 8th rest right > before it. If there's a collision, it's a bug. Can you try to produce a minimal example (i.e. remove everything in your code that doesn't prevent the collision from happeni

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/3 v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from > within lilypond: Thanks Victor (nice to see you again :-) I have added your example to the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475 Your workaround with the tup

Re: contribute paper.scm

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 hhpmusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I saw some people discussing what paper size to use one or two days > before. I'm also suffered from the paper size, and don't know how to handle > them when writing oversized large orchestral scores like Mahler and > Schoenberg did. Thank someone,

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/4 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, since no one is going to answer this I guess I'll answer it myself: > RTFM (the Learning Manual, that is) :D I have encountered similar problems with dynamics colliding with cross-staff barlines, but I never really found a way to get rid of this

Re: LilyKDE 0.6.0 beta has been released

2008-06-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/4 Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately I don't know how to create debian packages. > What problems do you encounter? You should install KDE, sip, PyKDE and PyQt > from recent distro packages. Pate might need to be compiled from source. Silly question: any plans for KDE 4

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/4 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is a known problem that has not made it into the bug tracker, as far as > I can see. Now it has: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=631 Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: Clef change and rest colliding

2008-06-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/5 Benedict Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a minimal example that produces the collision for me. In the > meantime, any way to move that clef around which will force more space at > the end of that line? Is the end-of-line clef change clef symbol referenced > differently than just Clef?

Re: Best Text Editor

2008-06-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/5 stefanozanobini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a text editor with a specific and complete extensive lilypond > hilighter? There are many, but if any, you have to have a look at: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/ (it's a great LilyPond plugin for the jEdit Java-based text editor) Cheers,

Re: seeking suggestions: stage directions "staff"

2008-06-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/6 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My current plan is to use one extra Staff context (with all the normal > engravers removed) for each of these two text "streams", and simply attach > \markuplines to notes (or rests or skips). Does anyone have a better > suggestion? It will not wor

Re: 2008 Community Choice Awards; call for votes

2008-06-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/6 Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've done likewise on Sourceforge ... +1! I have also added a banner to my personal website, hopefully the "LilyPond Report" will earn us a couple more votes... I don't like SourceForge at all, but such events are a nice thing for the community. Cheer

Re: seeking suggestions: stage directions "staff"

2008-06-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/6 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, from the thread you referenced, it looks like you're doing/needing > something different than I am (right now)... I simply want to run a series > of stage directions or script lines/cues above the (musical portion of the) > score -- e.g., "Lig

Re: 2008 Community Choice Awards; call for votes

2008-06-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/7 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd like to do so, but ugh, non-SourceForge projects may have little > hope with this voting system: if you go to > http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-nominate and search for > "LilyPond", you'll see all combinations of name and URL used in votes.

Re: numérotation, chiffre de chaque mesure / numbering of each measure

2008-06-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
Le 7 juin 2008 17:36, Ledocq-Boccart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Is it possible to get that number for each measure printed on the pdf > output? Please have a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=93 Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: Place to write piano dynamics

2008-06-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/9 Michael Pozhidaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, everybody! Greetings, and welcome on the list! > There is one thing I cannot understand . In many examples > notes are not written in "\new Staff" block directly, > but placed in something like > upper = \relative c'' { >

Re: different rehearsal mark settings in score and part

2008-06-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/9 hhpmusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know how the remove empty staff function works. I added rehearsal > marks only above piccolo and violin I parts, but I don't know whether the > marks will let the parts appear during their silence. If no, the rehearsal > marks will disappear from

Re: Place to write piano dynamics

2008-06-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/9 Michael Pozhidaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, if I put dynamics in the melody variable, they will be placed near > right hand stave and there is no way to move them to the center? Actually, there is a way to use your "right hand" variable in the Dynamics context: since the Dynamics contex

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-06-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, A new issue is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-11 This week we'll see what is going on on the development mailing list; we will also talk about Free Culture, silly contests, paper sizes and cross-compiling, and have a look at the upcoming next stable

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I also noticed that recently Lilypond seems to use ragged-right=##t > for scores with only one line, while before the default was to use > ragged-right=##f, so all scores that looked fine before now look terrible, > because they no longe

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, no. Such parts typically contain multi-measure rests, which are then > stretched... Currently, it looks quite odd that one line does not span the > whole width of the page: Indeed. Maybe we could disable ragged-right when inside a \bo

Re: substitution with \movement

2008-06-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/11 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But unfortunately this doesn't work: > langsamer = { \movement "subito meno mosso" "4" #69 } You have to add a # before each quoted string: langsamer = { \movement #"subito meno mosso" #"4" #69 } It's in order to tell the Scheme interpreter: "hey

Re: substitution with \movement

2008-06-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/11 Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bullshit. There may be one point on which I tend to agree with Arjan: it's not always handy to constantly put a hash character before text strings. If I remember correctly (but I may have been hallucinating), you have some functions in your framewor

Re: substitution with \movement

2008-06-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/11 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh, come on! What is so hard about typing #? On an English > keyboard, you already need to be pressing the shift key to get the > " that you'll type for your string anyway. Yes, French keyboard layout is much more annoying (it requires twisting yo

Re: change fontsize in stanzas

2008-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/12 madhg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But is there a way of changing font size globally throughout a \markup{} > block? I searched in the manual (11.43) with no luck. LOL, it's a part of the documentation I've precisely been rewriting yesterday! See http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation

Re: change fontsize in stanzas

2008-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/12 madhg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for reply - but I still don't see the answer. > > It seems that commands like \large apply to the markup immediately > following, but not globally to markup inside other constructs. Oh, actually it was the previous page: \markup blocks may contain ne

Re: F7 chord appearing as E#7 when I transpose

2008-06-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/13 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since the same request has appeared for ordinary notes, some clever Scheme > hackers have > made a function that automatically gets rid of the extra accidentals by > enharmonically rewriting the > music. Dumb question: are we sure we still do need th

Re: Lily syntax in Python

2008-06-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/13 Neil Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone out there have a Lilypond syntax file written in Python? > > Figured I'd ask before I go coding the thing myself. You may want to have a look at Wilbert's LilyKDE: http://code.google.com/p/lilykde/ I am myself coding a LilyPond-related pr

Re: Inspirational Headwords for Chords section of manual

2008-06-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/13 Carl D. Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) I'd like an "Inspirational Headword" for the section on chords. This > would be some real music that uses chord names. It should show how LilyPond > produces excellent output by means of a fragment of an actual composition. > Anybody have

Re: Best Text Editor

2008-06-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/13 Emmanuel Charpentier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > However, the current lilypond-mode for emacs seems a tad outdated. > Better than anything I've tried but still leave some room for improvement. (OT) You may find some improvements in http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/lilypond/lyqi.html Cheers, Va

Re: Vertical stretching of groups

2008-06-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/14 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > E.g. Gardner Read clearly describes in his book that the instrumental groups > should have less spacing for their staves than the spacing to between the > groups. I've not been able to achieve this in lilypond yet. I use special contexts for the

Re: Convert relative into absolute

2008-06-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:20:43 + (UTC) > Arno Rog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way (script/program) to convert a 'relative' lilypond >> score into an absolute notation? 2008/6/14 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \displayMusic. See one of the later sections of the manual, >

Re: Convert relative into absolute

2008-06-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/14 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You mean precisely like NR 3.3.4 Displaying LilyPond notation ? Oh, so you meant \display_Lily_Music instead of \displayMusic :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org ht

Re: footer strings

2008-06-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/14 Clément <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Greetings, if you speak French (like Gilles and myself), you may be interested in subscribing to the French-speaking LilyPond mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr Gilles: Indeed, there would be a nice feature to impleme

Re: 2.11.49 - MIDI (again...)

2008-06-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/15 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > The MIDI file doesn't get created [...] Greetings, We can't help you unless you show us some piece of code. Though your approach seems OK, you may have forgotten something else. Cheers, Valentin ___ li

Re: Place to write piano dynamics

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 Michael Pozhidaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One more thing, there was information in the lilypond-user list how to force > lilypond to process \repeat{} block > twice for the midi output. I am sorry, I moved this message into one of my > mail folders and then simply lost. > Now this magic

Re: percussion beaters

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is there a possibilitie to integrate symbols for percussion-beaters and > sticks in a lilypond-file? Hi Stefan, I added an example to the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=486 Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 madhg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm transcribing some early classical prints. They use flags which are > bolder and clearer than modern flags - at least for 8ths and 16ths. > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p17872782/flags.jpg > > Would there be any interest in having this as another style o

Re: I want to create only a compass with lilypond

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 Jorge Branco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > I'm using the following code: > > \relative c' { > c > } > > Which produces me a file with a long compass(about the width of the page). I'd > like to know how can I limit its width, so it's just like a 1/5 of the page or > something like that.

Re: Incipit

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 Amélie Aubut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everyone! Hi Amélie, you might be interested in knowing that there's a French-speaking LilyPond mailing list on http://lists.gnu.org/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr/ (maybe you already know, but I don't remember having seen you there). > I have a pro

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-06-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/9 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings everybody, A new issue is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-12 This week, we'll talk command line on Windows, LilyPond development releases, MusicXML import, and friendliness vs usefulness; we'll a

Re: I want to create only a compass with lilypond

2008-06-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/16 Jorge Freitas Branco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using the latest version in the site already! I don't think you are (there are two versions on the download page: I'm talking about the one at the *bottom* of the page). Anyway, the solution is to add (at the top of your lilypond code): \

Re: plz help about lily.......

2008-06-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/17 magid fattahi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi Greetings, > i want to be a developer of lilypond > but im dont undrestand all codes . The easiest way to get familiar with LilyPond is to use it... We have a great documentation for users; if you haven't yet written any music using LilyPond, you

Re: clefs not shown

2008-06-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/17 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Lilypond users, > why are the clefs not shown in the below quoted example? OK, bug report: % Removing the Bar_engraver causes the clef % not to be printed after a line break. \version 2.11.49 \layout { \context { \Staff \remove "Bar_engrav

Re: Lyric hyphen / glissando

2008-06-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/18 Peter Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm looking for a way to create a customizable line from one lyric syllable > to the next to indicate a modulation of the sound between the two syllables. > This is really a lyric glissando, but \glissando cannot be applied to > lyrics. (Could \glis

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-06-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, A new issue is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-13 This week we'll talk a bit more about how Free Software, and particularly LilyPond, is developed, evolves, and ends up having a life of its own. We'll also talk 3D gaming, spectacular visualizations, b

Re: O Magnum Mysterium is done

2008-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/24 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If anyone would like a copy of the .ly pond for O Magnum Mysterium drop me a > note and I'll email you a copy. Perhaps you should consider sending your updated code to the Mutopia project, using the e-mail address provided on http://www.mutopiaprojec

Re: Lilypond weblink button

2008-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/25 V!ctor Adán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I made one of those popular 80x15 pixels web image buttons for Lilypond. If > you like it and want to give Lilypond some publicity please feel free to put > it up on your website as a link to Lilypond: www.lilypond.org. > Image is attached. Hi Victor,

Re: using lilypond book to create pdfs without latex

2008-06-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/26 Philip Chinery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am working on a small songbook script and I would like to embed the > lilypond pdfs (one pdf per line) into my pages. Is there a way to call > lilypond without having to create a surrounding tex file for that? Greetings, I don't think this is pos

Re: Towards something like a "helper" to write in Lilypond

2008-06-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/28 Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > lilyPondTool doesn't do this yet, but it's goal is definitely enabling that. Wilbert's LilyKDE also has a similar goal IIUC (not to mention my own EasyLilyPond project, that aims to integrate these different "modules" within a single platform). To me

Re: best practices

2008-06-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/29 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> We *have* a set of "best practices". >> They're LM 5 Working on LilyPond projects. >> I wrote them two years ago, and AFAIK nobody has ever read them. Not only have I read them too, but I think I translated them (or contributed to the translation

Re: Lilypond in Puppy Linux

2008-06-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/29 stefanozanobini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does Lilypond run also in Puppy Linux? > I've just installed Pully 4.00 and it would be useful to work with Lilypond, > when I switch on Puppy. Yes, LilyPond works on Puppy (I even managed to compile it from the sources on Puppy once). All depen

Re: Analysis Bracket Up

2008-06-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/30 Hugo Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, but which is the Grob Name to define the direction of the bracket? In > this version of the manual there is no mention to the analysis bracket. It's HorizontalBracket (look at the bottom of the NR analysis brackets page). In other words, it should

Re: using the cut-time symbol for 4/2 etc.

2008-06-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/30 Peter Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am producing an edition in 4/2 time, but I would like to use the traditional > symbol for cut time (¢) rather than the numerical signature (4/2). Is there a > straightforward way to do this and still have lilypond create measures that > are > 4 half

Re: using the cut-time symbol for 4/2 etc.

2008-06-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/30 Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Doesn't this work? > \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(2 . 2) Oh, yes! Much more elegant actually. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

'make install' fails: CenturySchL-Ital.otf not found

2008-07-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everyone, In today's git, 'make install' fails: File "/home/valentin/git/stepmake/bin/install.py", line 78, in shutil.copy2 (f, dest) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 91, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 46, in copyfile fsrc = open

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-07-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/1 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think "OK" is just a more polite way of closing the window than > clicking on the "close window" button; it doesn't save anything. As far as I know, "save" saves without closing the window, while "OK" saves *and* closes the window. Cheers, Valentin

Re: Miscellaneous part questions: Margins and ostinati

2008-07-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/3 Nick Baskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where does the "\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t" line go? Either: - At the beginning of one of your voices - or inside \score, between your topmost << >> - or (which I use) in the \layout block, in a \context block: \layout { \con

Re: Miscellaneous part questions: Margins and ostinati

2008-07-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/3 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The correct answer is "Please read LM 3+4 in the 2.11 docs". ... Or that too, yes :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Error message using 2.11.50-1

2008-07-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/3 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. Yeah, I get the same error with the same macro. The good news is, y

2nd alternative Volta bracket isn't printed after a line break

2008-07-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings, I've been discussing with Michael Pozhidaev about the way volta brackets are printed when a line break occurs in an "alternative" situation. In the following snippet, the 2nd bracket is not printed after the line break: \relative c'' { \time 2/4 \repeat volta 2 { d4 d } \alt

Re: Lilypond - .exe's for past development versions

2008-07-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/4 George Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it at all possible if you email me, or give me a link, for the installer > for the 2.11.49 version of Lilypond. The 2.11.50 version doesn't work for > me, but I can't find the .49 version anywhere, so I was wondering if you > could help me in this. Gre

Re: beams

2008-07-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/4 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This was a bug, but it is now fixed in git. Great! (this is me pretending to be an efficient BugMeister :) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Re: Bus error in 2.11.50 on OS X

2008-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/6 Mark Pim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To solve a spacing problem I wanted to update to 2.11.50 (which I realise is > the development release but I understand you're quite close to a 2.12 > release?), anyways every file now fails with a bus error, even the standard > test file included with t

LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
> Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490 > Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - > the snippet repository but you will not find this snippet > Using Browse you can find it after scrolling through several

Re: slash

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/7 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think I have seen some clever solution on the mailing list, > that redefined the function that draws the stem, in order to > automatically get it correctly placed. I don't remember if it > was a slash or a cross or something else that was placed on >

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/7 Sebastiano Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guys, please post this kind of problems. There was simply a wrong update so > that the index wasn't rebuilt since days. So new snippets were showing up in > the browsing list (because they are picked from the database in that case) > but not in a se

Re: sustainOn

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/8 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I vote, as a pianist, for sustainDown/sustainUp. Who's with me? Oh, please don't make it a "with me" question... Understanding your point of view and sharing or not doesn't make anyone "with" or "without" you. Actually, it is as a pianist too that

Re: sustainOn

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/9 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No. No, no, absolutely no. That's a long-term support nightmare. > I can't stop you from adding it to LSR, but such snippets will > *never* be accepted with the "docs" tag. Nor are they meant to be -- and I wasn't offering to add them myself. The

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/9 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I still find it odd -- and a bit disconcerting -- that the page says (e.g.) > "0-13 of 14 results"... ;-) I mentioned it a while back: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-5#outil_sommaire_3 Cheers, Valentin __

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/14 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Two good points. So why do we need \pointAndClickOn? John Mandereau (whom I've just met with) has just given me an example of a case where one would need a \pointAndClickOn: suppose you have a default stylesheet file, called e.g. "layout.ly", that

Re: \tag can't follow \lyricsto

2008-07-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/16 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the mode switching commands (like lyricsto) are a bit erratic. > Sometimes, the parser needs to look ahead to determine what to do > next, and then it can happen that the next token is read in the wrong > mode. This may lead to interactions like t

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