Re: Again: stemBoth problem

2009-03-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/5 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng : > I don't > want to assign two separate voices with plenty of confusing spacer notes. > \relative c' { >   \stemUp c8(^"I" d e f g a b c | )(_"II" \stemDown c b a g f e d | c1) > } Unfortunately, I'm afraid the only proper way to do it is to use spacer notes. At least,

Re: Editorial Annotation

2009-03-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/4 Neil Puttock : > \relative c' { >  \once \override ParenthesesItem #'font-size = #0 >  c1-\parenthesize \trill > } Now that *is* awesome. Added to http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=421 I think I have my "Snippet of the week" for the new LilyReport :) Regards, Valentin _

Re: Again: stemBoth problem

2009-03-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/5 Robin Bannister : > Maybe these are trivial difficulties compared to those you constantly > cope with, but, as a general priciple, I would have thought you would be > better off going with the flow: >  not fighting Lilypond but rather >  letting Lilypond do its graphic thing as much as po

Re: New ConTeXt module

2009-03-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/9 fiëé visuëlle : > Where did you find only 2.10? Perhaps Eluze was mixing up ConTeXt and ConTEXT :-) http://www.contexteditor.org/highlighters.php?filter=I-L Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.g

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Miklos Vajna : > I already used exceptions to display an arpeggio after a guitar chord, > and this one works perfectly as well. I just _can't_ _believe_ _this_. THE vmiklos himself, on our list! Just wanted to say I'm a big fan of yours. Congrats for the 1.0, and long live FW! Regards

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Hans Aberg : > Just download the TrueType fonts and install them using the Font Book as > "Computer" (system wide) fonts. It worked on Mac OS X 10.5.x for PPC. In recent LilyPond versions, you don't even have to install the font; you can just put it in the same directory as your source f

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Helge Kruse : > sorry for being so foolish. But I would like to become a fan too. Honestly I > missed what vmiklos stands for. I dont want to ask this at the list if the > question is inappropriate. Who is vmiklos and what is FW? Quite an appropriate question, on the contrary... Behold:

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Valentin Villenave : > Frugalware has recently (a couple weeks ago, I think) gone 1.0, after > 5 years or so of development. Oops! My mistake: the 1.0 version is actually due next week. http://www.frugalware.org/roadmap (I was actually referring to the last RC, which I took f

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 patrick duka : > "you can just put it in the same directory as your source file, and add > >  #(ly:font-config-add-directory "./") > >  before loading your font." > I'm really sorry but this is not clear for a newbie like me, where is my > source file? I meant your .ly file :-) This sol

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/17 patrick duka : > Hi Kees, > "I hope the developers will add the Persian accidentals in the next Lilypond > version", > even though it seems obvious that they will, I plan to post a message in > that sense (I don't know where to make this kind of request yet). I think this request is alre

Re: jEdit Lilytool: Questions midi tool broken? autocomplet?

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/17 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) : > I hope that sooner or later Valentin will able to create a new EasyLilyPond > package to make better jEdit/LilyPondTool user experience ;-) Absolutely, but since I'm trying to deliver a multi-platform solution this time, it might be later rather than soo

Re: cross-staff voice indication

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/18 Florian Hollerweger : > Boy, do I love free software! 30 minutes from question to answer. > > You guys are amazing, thanks Mats! Actually, this is not *just* Free Software, it is LilyPond :-) (... and it's not just LilyPond, it's Mats !) Regards, Valentin

Re: cross-staff voice indication

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/19 Florian Hollerweger : (sorry, I missed your second mail) > It seems that staff-change lines do not work whenever they have to operate > in a voice context (version 2.10.33)? Actually, it's the opposite: followVoice or showStaffSwitch only work at a Voice level. But in your example, yo

Re: cross-staff voice indication

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/19 Florian Hollerweger : > I would like to indicate the latter change with a line as well, but that > change does not cause a switch of that voice between _staves_ (only its > "position" within the right-hand-staff). The voice-following lines are really not meant to go *inside* the staff.

Re: default margins

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/18 Pekka Siponen : > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in > scores > is about 2 cm wide. If the margins are only 1 cm thick, the page seems too > crowded. Also it is a legibility issue: usually for text, the lenght of a line > should not exceed 50–70 char

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/19 Graham Percival : > This would require the ability to change margins in lilypond > on-the-fly, of course.  I doubt that's possible in current page > settings... and in any case, it would mix up content and > presentation a fair amount.  Unless we defined something like: > \paper { >  line

Re: no glissando between 16th notes

2009-03-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
Le 19 mars 2009 21:21, Frédéric Bron a écrit : > The following code produces no glissando between 16th notes (2.12.2): > Why? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Glissando Default padding is 1.5 staff spaces on the right and on the left. If the notes are closer t

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/23 Jonathan Kulp : >> If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to >> export Lilypond data.  I know there were rumors of such a thing >> floating around for a while, but I got tired of waiting and searching, >> so I just started to cobble one together. > Matthew, I on

Re: Help for paper about LilyPond and WYSIWYM sofware

2009-03-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/23 MonAmiPierrot : > Did anyone write something about LilyPond and the WYSIWYM “philosophy”? I assume you already know about Andrew's paper: http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-1.html Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/24 Graham Percival : > Sure, do you feel like writing a cross-platform web-page opener? AFAIK, an 'open' system call is enough; the OS deals with the URL with whatever the default browser is. Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: Help for paper about LilyPond and WYSIWYM sofware

2009-03-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/23 MonAmiPierrot : > in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers & > music/critical editions. I will introduce to a Finale-enslaved audience the > great advantages of LilyPond (by the way, I'm going to talk more about LaTeX > stuff: music things will be just one of

Re: How do I fix the path?

2009-03-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/31 Father Gordon Gilbert : > Looking at that, I see a mixture of \ and /.  Obviously it thinks it's on a > Windoze box somehow.  So where to I find the right place to fix the path? > And what do I put in there? It's in Plugins > Plugin Options > LilyPondTool > General there you have to put

Re: Does Nabble work ALWAYS?

2009-03-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/31 MonAmiPierrot : > I'm just wondering if Nabble shows ALL messages of this mailing list, or > only Nabble-posted messages. It should show every messages. > I ask this because I found out that it didn't in other mailing lists with > Nabble. This is because the people in charge of those

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/1 Francisco Vila : > At the same time, you all know what's the relation between the article > and LilyPond: although not mentioned in the text, the first opera by > Valentin Villenave is licensed as free software, and it has been fully > typeset using Lily. It has been a re

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/1 Kieren MacMillan : > This gets me to thinking... the website should have a section listing recent > productions & performances which used Lilypond scores! > What does everyone think? Sure! Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/2 Kieren MacMillan : > I used Finale for over a decade, eventually becoming the computer music lab > tutor/assistant at Shepherd School of Music (while doing my Master of Music > there) -- I was as nimble with Finale as anyone I knew (know). I estimate > that, for me, note entry is ca. 3x f

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/3 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Op donderdag 02-04-2009 om 18:00 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen > Nienhuys: > >> I think there are a couple of memorable quotes here for the website... > > Indeed, thanks for all the praise!  For sure its more fun to read than > eg http://lwn.net/Articles/32669

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/3 Jonathan Kulp : > What's nice about Lilypond from my "composer's" point of view is that it's > gotten me back to writing music with pencil and paper instead of doing it in > Finale. I've realized for a while that in some pieces Finale was making me > lazy as a composer (and the same happe

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/3 Dave Phillips : > If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles, then > that's fine with me. But if anyone has a problem with my articles per se I'd > prefer they take it up with me, not with my publishers. Not at all. It's just some comments that (by design, I thi

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/5 Werner LEMBERG : > > Honestly, this would be OK with me.  How many users are aware that > `c 4' is the same as `c4' (I wasn't, BTW)?  Is this ever documented? > Do we have a single example which makes use of this syntactic > possibility? Not that I know of (I wasn't aware either that you

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/5 Werner LEMBERG : > This looks very artificial... Yes it does; however, it's the only non-breaking way I can see (besides using a new symbol such as "&"). Granted, it is far-fetched. c4 c &2 seems probably more natural (to me) than c4 c 2 or even c4 4 2 however, the cool part of the latte

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/5 Han-Wen Nienhuys : > Please come up with something different.  I think the idea to > use (for example) & as a place holder is much more sane. As I suggested, if we forbid such standalone durations after anything else than an explicit duration, it would not break anything wrt whitespaces.

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/6 Trevor Daniels : >> The 'q' version to my eyes is a bit easier to read. > > As I do little note entry myself I don't have a view > on the merits of q vs &, but there is another issue to > consider.  If the base chord being repeated contains > tweaks, fingering, etc, are these to be repeate

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/7 Werner LEMBERG : >> #(define-public (default-repetition-function previous-chord new-chord) >>     ... build a music expression...) >> #(ly:parser-repetition-name parser "&") >> #(ly:parser-repetition-function parser default-repetition-function) > > Nice idea! OK, I believe we've reached a

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/10 Graham Percival : > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:08:32AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: >> For me, I only use "\repeat percent" and most of all "\repeat >> tremolo". In both cases, audio output is important.  At least >> for tremolos, you'll perfectly agree that there's no point in >> not play

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/11 Graham Percival : > Yes, there's a Frog mailist, but I can't remember the address > offhand.  If Valentin had his website up, I could find the address > there. Actually, the website /is/ up, but it's not official yet (and the webdesign hasn't been uploaded): http://frogs.lilynet.net/ P

The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-04-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, Well, it's time for a reboot! The LilyPond Report is back, with a new design, new features... but still the same spirit :-) OK, let’s admit it: this installment has been released with some delay. Like, nine to ten months… How is that? What has happened since then in the LilyP

Re: \repeat unfold... *zero*

2009-04-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/13 Dmytro O. Redchuk : >  \repeat "unfold" 0 { d4 d d d }   % "zero" here > That's not a problem, i can not say why one could need > \repeat unfold *zero* { ":-)" } That's a brilliant idea! Maybe the most useless feature ever, but it's pretty cool anyway :-) I'm not going to add it to ou

Re: Unable to build Lylipond by the installation

2009-04-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/18 Alexis : > Hello, > as a newbie in Linux I make surely mistakes to install Lylipond. I've > downloaded > the package "lilypond_2.10.33.orig.tar.gz" from the Lylipond Homepage and also > the other file "lilypond_2.10.33-2.2build1.dsc" (but I actually don't know > what > this second file

Re: get typical jazz swing in drums midi file

2009-04-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/19 Grammostola Rosea : > It is possible to get an typical jazz swing also in the midi file, so I hear > it when playback? It's a request that is already waiting in our tracker: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=687 Regards, Valentin __

Re: Call For Info: new composer/musician models using Lilypond

2009-04-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/20 Kieren MacMillan : > I'd be interested in hearing [OFFLINE] from anyone who has a story of > "musical innovation" to share, and would be willing to have me (possibly) > include them in my presentation next year. I'm on the road tommorrow, but I would certainly be interested in discussing

Re: Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/21 craigbakalian : >        Do we have anything to convert a lilypond file to a music xml file. > Doing a google search just provides the opposite, xml to lily.  Anybody > know of anything? This is a popular feature request, and hopefully someone will implement it some day: http://code.goog

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/22 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) : > That didn't mean I wouldn't do it :) My all-time feature request: modify JPedal so that its output wouldn't be a toplevel window but a dockable window. By providing this feature, we could easily have a "dual-window" perspective like in Frescobaldi. Oh,

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/28 Andrew Hawryluk : > It would be nice if LilyPond could use proper super/sub-scripts when > they exist in a font, and substitute the scaled version when > necessary. A similar approach has been suggested for real small caps: > > http://www.nabble.com/high-quality-typesetting-within-lilypo

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/29 Graham Percival : 2009/4/29 Graham Percival : > Yes and no. It would be a great strategy, if we had any clue what > the status of LSR was. Until we have some kind of indication as > to when the change can happen, and how it should happen, I > question whether any of this work is worthw

Re: memory problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/29 David Bobroff : > Cannot allocate memory How much RAM and swapfile amount do you have? Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Absolute premiere of a LilyPond typesetted work

2009-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/8 Francisco Vila : > A work from César Camarero entitled "Duración invisible" (Invisible > duration) for double orchestra and three soloists, is to be first > performed in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. The score is fully > typeset using LilyPond 2.12 (not by the author). > I can hear yo

Re: Absolute premiere of a LilyPond typesetted work

2009-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/9 Francisco Vila : > It was typeset by the pianist and composer Pascual Marchante. As for > the license of the score: well thougth, if it is not published at all, > how can it be licensed anyway? It is a copyrighted work, period. IIRC > it was commissioned by the Madrid autonomous community

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-05-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/21 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Oh, and good for you for taking the, uhm, break, it was well worth it! Hi everybody, Well, not only have I taken a "hum, break", but I am also having a hard time publishing the Report on a (remotely) regular basis. So, for now, it will be more of a "release-when-re

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/23 Xavier Scheuer : > I totally agree, there is a problem with textual Tempo marks alignment. Hi Xavier, we do know about that. Since Graham has already gone all Graham-ish, here's just an additional, more "pedagogical" answer. > I wanted to report this too, then I saw issues 684, 700 and

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/23 Tim McNamara : > "Helping" takes many forms. > > Like many LilyPond users, I know nothing useful about computer programming > and so cannot help with correcting problems in the code.  I have a full > time-plus highly demanding job, a marriage, a house, ailing parents, I play > music and h

Re: beatboxing

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/22 Francisco Vila : > Hello, first I saw these videos > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg We certainly can write this: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=518 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAioUkd1aSI OK, this one is gonna be more challenging :-) Regards, Valentin ___

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme : > Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't > think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more > confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd > already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building complicated functio

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme : > I've uploaded my flam functions to LSR as snippet 566, and it's awaiting > approval. My functions include \flam, \drag, and \ruff and can be > attached to any drum note. Unfortunately, the LSR is in the process of being upgraded to Lily 2.12, so I can't "approve" it righ

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/29 Carl D. Sorensen : >> If I remember well, Carl has said that he was planning to work on the >> chords improvement. How far is this process? > > Not at all started.  It's still floating around in the back of my head.  I'm > flying to England in June, with a long layover in New York City,

Re: LilyPond Wiki

2009-06-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/12 Francisco Vila : > Hello, anyone knows what's happened to the lilypond wiki? > > wiki.lilynet.net OMG. I'm on it. Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/24 Graham Percival : > The only reason why flash deserves to exist is so that you can > play tower defense games.  Other than that, it should die an > unmerciful death and never be mentioned in the same sentence as > "web" or "home page".  :) Fortunately, there are now several Free ways of

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/23 Hans Aberg : > The LilyPond logo > could get some more color. Graham, without necessarily using a different image, you can simply modify the color levels in the existing one; here's a slightly better-looking version (IMO) that I've just made using the Gimp: http://valentin.villenave.inf

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/25 Mats Bengtsson : > I cannot really recall having seen "About" as a main link on any other > product web page > (it's rather used in Help menus of different programs if you want to check > what version you > have installed). So, it's probably not so obvious for most readers what to > expec

Re: Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/25 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Here's the flower snipped from double-lily, can we use that? That's more or less what I use as a favicon for lilynet.net :) A while back, I had made a vectorized logo (the flower was not great, and I had added a character on top of it). But is anyone wants to start

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-07-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/29 Neil Puttock : > With apologies to Michael, here's a simpler method for centring text > using a grob callback, which effectively does the same as your old > code by retrieving the notehead (or rest) from the PaperColumn then > mimicking the centered_on_x_parent callback: Although I've be

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/6 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Just by accident I looked upon Valentin's page, if only we would > be able to steel the header images/gradient and possibly put nicely > rounded tabs into the bottom of that header gradient > [CSS stealing suggestion: http://tinto-taal.nl ] and also steal > other roun

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/6 Mark Polesky : > I also like the layout of gimp.org. > Click their menu links too. > Nice looking site. Since you're mentioning that, http://www.blender.org/ has a top-menu that is very similar to the new Lily website's draft. Regards, Valentin _

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/8 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Valentin's site attracts my initial attention and gives a professional > feel.  Much more than both the lilypond.org sites.  Possibly he/we > could/should  merge this site even with lilypond.org.  I don't know. I agree that the very first look is important. (which is

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/9 Graham Percival : > Now for *my* rant. Man, I wish you had kept that for the next Postcard :) OK, now this has just made me want to get working on the Report again. (sigh) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.o

Re: Problem of chords with lilypond 2.10.33 under debian lenny

2009-07-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/9 Le Piaf : > I hope you'll understand my english. > Please answer in very simple words, or in french if you can (in private > then) Greetings, though someone may answer your questions here in English, you might be interested in joining our French-speaking LilyPond mailing list: http://lis

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/10 Graham Percival : > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Now we're talking! Much, much better. Pretty cool, actually. No, I'd even go with "handsome". Actually, seeing this website really made me want to give this little project of yours a try (what's it call

Re: feature request (concerning midi-output)

2009-07-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/21 Werner : > \midi { >        \context { >        \Score >        % harmonies = ##f >        % (output all voices but no harmonies from chordNames!) >        } > } There's already a way to do it. Try something such as \midi { \context { \type "Performer_group" \name ChordNames

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/21 Mark Polesky : >> % midi-out all voices but not harmonies from ChordNames > Commands that are too specific are not as useful. The syntax allows > you to create as many score blocks as you like containing as many > combinations of elements as you like. The user has control of many > indiv

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-07-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/19 Nicolas Sceaux : > Your function does not work as you expect because it just returns an > empty SequentialMusic. Only the return value of the music function gets > "inserted" in the current music. Read scm/parser-ly-from-scheme.scm, > function parse-string-result. Hi Nicolas, and everyb

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-07-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/24 Nicolas Sceaux : > And `for-each' does not return a list, you want `map' here. Of course I do! Silly me. Thanks for your patience :-) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: new spacing test/example

2009-07-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/25 Kieren MacMillan : > Thanks — when I figure out how to get Joe's branch checked out, I'll be able > to use that information. - go to http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git - at the bottom, click on "dev/jneeman" - at the right of the topmost line, click on "snapshot". There

Re: new spacing test/example

2009-07-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/25 Kieren MacMillan : > I'm trying (Mac OS X), but I'm apparently missing some programs: > >    bison, texi2html, libguile: was able to install using 'port install PROG' >    guile-config 1.8.0 (installed: 1.6.8), makeinfo 4.11 (installed: 4.7): > 'port install PROG' returns 'Port PROG not f

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/30 Graham Percival : > http://lilypond.org/~graham/index.html I really like this. The "Where now?" stuff is simply brilliant. As is the green-ish gradient. Minor nitpicks: CSS - the quickSummary subheading's boder-bottom is a bit too thick to my taste (if it is to stay that thick, we shou

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/1 David Raleigh Arnold : > Some cartoons would not be amiss. At "bug reports" a delighted > frog nailing a bug with a loong tongue, and under "downloads" > some happy people being handed boxes off of the back of a truck, you > get the idea. This idea has been rejected in the past (see

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/1 Francisco Vila : > 2009/8/1 Graham Percival : >> Work on the actual content of the website seems to have hit a >> brick wall.  I'm not very happy about this, especially since some >> of the gaps are easy to fill.  (*nobody* knows *anything* about >> the non-English forums for discussing li

Re: Lilypond speed

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Graham Percival : > There you go: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-11/msg00024.html This is huge! (I suspect I wasn't subscribed to -devel when this was posted, otherwise I'd have noticed it). Even though there's clearly no magic recipe to speed up LilyPond (except

Re: "anchors" in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Han-Wen Nienhuys : > I can imagine how this would be implemented, but it would be a lot of > work.  If anyone is up for a challenge, I can give some pointers. :) OK, now there's no way I'm gonna let you get away with such a promise :-) http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=82

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/1 Jonathan Wilkes : > I found that layout-set-staff-size not affecting staff line spacing in a > layout block was addressed in a previous email as a bug: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00034.html > > But I don't see the bug listed in the google code page for bug

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/1 Valentin Villenave : >> The Spanish forum is a Yahoo! group. > > There's also > http://www.lilypondforum.de/ (German) > http://groups.google.com/group/lilypond-brasil (Portuguese) > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr (French) ... and h

Re: Lilypond speed

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Graham Percival : > Why do people never believe me when I say that there's tons of > cool stuff we /could/ do, if only more people helped out? That's not my point. My point is to make sure that nothing potentially cool gets lost. > Of course, there's no point writing the sequel until th

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Mats Bengtsson : > Right! That's one reason that we have a bug report on this problem. I'm sure I've already seen similar problems, but I can't find it anywhere. Jonathan, would you like to send a bug report (preferably with lyrics and melismas, as Reinhold suggested), to the bug-lilyp..

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Mats Bengtsson : > See http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=75 Thanks! I was looking at 304, but that wasn't it :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lily

New mailing list for translators

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everyone, as the -devel list tends to get crowded these days, John and I have opened a separate mailing list for documentation translators. You can subscribe and read the archives on http://lists.lilynet.net/translations To whomever is in charge of the translationproject.org LilyPond c

Re: conditionally eliminating lyric extender

2009-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/5 Kieren MacMillan : > I want to [automagically] conditionally eliminate lyric extenders when >    (1) the end of the syllable which has the extender is after [i.e., to the > right of] the melisma's last note; and, >    (2) the distance to the following syllable is less than the minimum > ex

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/7 Mark Polesky : > At the moment, this is the best I can come up with. > smallStaff = { >  #(define factor 3/4) >  \set Staff.fontSize = #(inverse-magstep factor) >  \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #factor > } How about creating a FluteStaff context, and invoke it with \new Flu

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/8 Mark Polesky : > > Jay Anderson wrote: > >>     \context >>     { >>       \Staff >>       \type "Engraver_group" >>       \name "SmallStaff" >>       \alias "Staff" >> >>       fontSize = #-3 >>       \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3) >>     } > > I like it. Jay, Mark,

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/16 Graham Percival : > (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example > -- and that's trivially done with a web browser!) As far as I can remember, Stan Sanderson was in charge of the regtest checking (but perhaps this needs to be updated?). That being said, I am able (

Re: long markups running off the right margin...

2009-08-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/20 Arno Waschk : > <>  c4^"longish playing indication ma non troppo" > d2. > > so that if the bar, which would only take little space with its only two > notes, appears towards the end of a line, the text line will run off the > right end of the staff, and often out of the paper itself. Hav

Re: Enhancement request: automatic polyphony in TabStaff context

2009-08-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/19 Patrick Schmidt : >  I actually sent two enhancement requests to bug-lilyp...@gnu.org one week > ago (13 Aug. 2009). I wonder what happened to them. (Enhancement request: > automatic polyphony in TabStaff context; Enhancement request: Automatic > glissando marks in chords). Where can I

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Stefan Thomas : > I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. I suspect this might be achieveable by using the Horizontal_bracket_engraver (see NR1.7.2.3). It would require to override the HorizontalBracket #'stencil property and replace it with a Scheme callback

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Mark Polesky : > Ugh. Kludge-o-rama. Ghost voices, hidden notes, clashing > note-columns, spacing nightmares... I'll see if someone > has a better idea on -devel, but in the meantime, this is > an option. A quite ugly one then -- no offence :-) Let's make this official, even with some m

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
> Simon Mackenzie wrote: > >> I will be looking myself, but if anyone can suggest a good web site >> which would aid me in grasping music theory this would also be much >> appreciated. GNU Solfege is a Free Software program (like LilyPond) that could provide you with useful exercizes: http://solfe

Re: Staff sizing

2009-08-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/25 Didi & MiMi Kanjahn : > Hi Valentin, Hi, > May I ask you a question? Sure, but you can also include the list :-) > I am trying to resize a score from A4 to A5. > Using > >   \layout { >   #(layout-set-staff-size 14)... > > most things bound to the staff scaled down nicely, but the dis

Re: \bookpart and the "\include trouble"

2009-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > I can't get it working if in the scores there are some \include. > The error messages says there's a synthax error in the included file (even > english.ly!?). Thats because in file2 you're including english.ly, that contains toplevel expres

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > %% UNTESTED! > includeList = > #(define-music-function (parser location variable-names) (list?) >  (make-sequential-music >   (map (lambda (variable-name) >          (let ((music (ly:parser-lookup parser (string->symbol > variable-name >

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > You have to use let* instead of let. With let* the definitions are evaluated > in > the given order and can depend on each other. With let, you cannot use one of > the variables in the value of another. Oh, thanks. Actually there was so

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > Oh, and make sure you vote for your country's Pirate Party. > Branches started recently in the UK and Canada, so I've got my > next elections' votes lined up.  ;) [off-topic] btw: French Pirate Party's first election is in two weeks here, an

Re: Pirate Party [was: Re: Contemporary music documentation]

2009-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > On that note ... does the Pirate Party have any kind of official > response to this article by Richard Stallman? > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html Yes we do (as a matter of fact I am the Pirate member he refers to in the nex

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > W00t, I got only > real    5m47.699s > user    5m32.306s > sys     0m11.697s > on my linux system (C2D @ 2 GHz), but I'm still on 2.12.1, which gave me some > error messages, though the PDF was created. Perhaps 2.13 is a little > faster(?)

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