Re: In octaves

2008-04-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/24 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, so if I wanted to have both options available, how would I do the scheme > code to define, say, "octavesUp = " and "octavesDown = ". I see from > Valentin's tip how to change it so that \octaves will be either up down, but > it would be great to b

Re: In octaves

2008-04-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/25 Jay Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To make it work in a relative section always use 0 for the octave up > and -2 for the octave down. I don't really know how to make it work > both inside and outside of a relative section easily. This is my first > dip into some of lilypond's intern

custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, a few days ago Neil sent a new snippet to be added in input/new : "Adding text indications to metronome marks". It involved quite a lot of typing, so I tried to come up with a function that would be easier to use. Here's my code; it works quite well on simple examples, but on

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/25 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's my code; it works quite well on simple examples, but on complex > scores it triggers an error I've never seen: OK, I've fixed it; it actually involved using a different name for the metronomeMarkFormatter

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/25 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's good, but there are two problems with it; one quite serious if > you value having MIDI output. I don't, so I don't care :) > First, you haven't set tempoWholesPerMinute properly, unfortunately > (it's the same problem I was scratching my h

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/25 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This could be solved easily *if* parse-simple-duration can be made > public , so it can be accessed from a .ly file. Then it's just a > matter of changing string->duration to the following: I think you'd just need to ly:load the relevant file. 200

Re: crash on 10.4.11

2008-04-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/26 Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OS 10.4.11, PPC, Lilypond 2.11.44 & 2.11.45 > Platforms: iMac G4 1GHZ and PowerBook G4 1.67 MHz > > Lilypond v. 2.11.44-1 and 2.11.45-1 quits on loading. I have another similar report on the French list, except that here it seems to happen only wit

Re: crash on 10.4.11

2008-04-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/27 Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not so cheery, Added to the tracker just to make sure everyone notices it: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=613 I think it will be fixed in a matter of days. Cheers, Valentin ___ lily

Re: Sibelius and Lilypond

2008-04-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/27 Alberto Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any known (good) way to convert sibelius music sheets for > Lilypond, or is the best way to go through MIDI? Kirill was working on a sib2ly export plugin in 2006, but we haven't heard from him for some time... Otherwise, your only solution

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

2008-04-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/3/23 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings everyone, A new issue of the "Lilypond Report" is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/spip.php?article66 This week, we'll talk about beer, beer and beer. Additionally we'll mention PDF, RSS, Eee and othe

Re: Rest and bar measures problems with midi2ly

2008-04-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/28 Rafa del Campo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a problem with midi2ly. When I save a midi file in Sibelius, and then > I > invoke midi2ly, the translation is ok. But when I record a midi file with my > piano and another program I have problem with rests and the bar measures. > What >

Re: Rest and bar measures problems with midi2ly

2008-04-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/28 Rafa del Campo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \tempo 4 = 60 > \time 4/4 > s4*143/24 c'32*5 s32*11 c'4*31/24 s8. g'4*32/24 s4*16/24 | Looks like a problem of tempo/quantization to me. I don't know midi2ly at all (I haven't ever used it actually), but I believe there are people on this lis

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/29 Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the record, here is a version without the breve limitation, > and with nicer style. Nicolas: I really like your code (I'm using it right now); however, 2.10 currently doesn't accept it :( If you can figure out a way to make it work on the LSR

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/29 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems to work with .11 & .10. In fact, the results look better this > way than with \concat. The space between the left parenthesis and the > note head is better matched with the space between the number and the > right parenthesis. If I may

Re: custom metronome-markup procedure causes weird goops-error

2008-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/29 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's excellent. I've tagged it as docs so we can remove the snippet > in input/new. I didn't know what it felt like to have someone else taking care of the LSR... Feels great actually :-) Cheers, Valentin __

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.4-2 (help fix) released

2008-04-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/29 Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A (maybe) related question... > > Is there anyway to turn off autocomplete, add my own items to the > autocomplete > list or to make the spacebar _not_ do an autocomplete? Plugin Options > Sidekick > "Accept characters for completion" > delete the firs

Re: Line breaks in text markups

2008-05-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/1 Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I managed to write notes and lyrics or the first verse for a song. Looks > great! I bet it does :-) > Now, I would like to add the lyrics of further verses below. > The only command I found for this is "\markup". > Is there a possibility to add manu

Re: Place bar line at start of single staff

2008-05-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/1 Rafael F. Compte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I couldn't find a way to print a single bar line at the beginning of > the score though. Maybe someone else could point us in the right > direction. Here you are: \new Staff \with { \consists "System_start_delimiter_engraver" \override Syst

StaffSymbol #' staff-space definition produces a SystemStartBar (?)

2008-05-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everyone, On my way to answer Adam's recent mail, I found something really surprising: why does \new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol #' staff-space = #1.4 } {a b c' d'} produces a single-staff system with a left barline at its beginning (which is fine, as it does help to keep t

Re: Amazing Grace Melody and Guitar Chords

2008-05-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/3 Thermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone have a .ly file for Amazing Grace as melody and guitar chords to > share? You might want to have a look at this ABC search engine: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=amazing+grace And then use abc2ly, and then... oh, the hell with

Re: Help getting started with Danny Boy

2008-05-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/4 Peter Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 04/05 09:38:29, James E. Bailey wrote: > > Am 04.05.2008 um 05:59 schrieb Paul Scott: > [ snip plasmacarwash's questions ] > > >> Have you read the tutorial? > >> > >> We can help you better if you show us what you have tried. > I think Paul's s

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

2008-05-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/28 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings everyone, A new issue of the "Lilypond Report" is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-8 This week's issue tries to deal with several questions raised last week. Trevor Daniels, who's our g

Re: Place bar line at start of single staff

2008-05-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/5 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems to me that Valentin's solution is unnecessarily complicated. They often are :-) > \new Staff {\override Score.SystemStartBar #'collapse-height = #1 c d e f} Oh yes, I should have realized the engraver was already included at the Score leve

LSR: caps font-shape snippet doesn't work

2008-05-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, Can anyone make this snippet work? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=100 I added it last year (it was in a set of regtests Graham sent me, I think), but IIRC it never worked. I thought it was a version compatibility problem, but it appears not to be. I think it might be because t

Re: Two voices, only one note

2008-05-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/6 Alberto Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is this possible? Try \override Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-differently-headed = ##t and \override Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t These commands are explained on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/

Re: Header on all pages - how to ?

2008-05-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/7 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One example, showing how to include the title of the > piece at the top of > every page, can be found at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-02/msg00638.html ... or can also (more easily) be found on the LilyPond Snippet Reposito

Re: Header on all pages - how to ?

2008-05-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/7 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Which I failed to find when searching for "head", "header" or "head*". I > should > have searched for "top" :-) Yes, I tried "head" too before you posted; after seeing your mail I looked for "print" and this gave me the answer :) Cheers, Valentin

Re: Lyrics and slurs and articulation

2008-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/8 Jean-Alexis Montignies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! Hi Jean-Alexis, if you happen to be a French-speaking LilyPonder, you might be interested in knowing that there's also a special LilyPond mailing list in French: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr Cheers, Valentin _

LSR: "Modifying default values for articulation shorthand notation"

2008-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings, I don't know who added this snippet (Jay, is that you?), but there's something obviously missing in the source code: \relative c'' { c-+ } dashPlus = "trill" \relative c'' { c-+ } I'll happily approve it... as soon as the code is fixed :) Cheers, Valentin __

Re: LSR: "Modifying default values for articulation shorthand notation"

2008-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/8 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know who added this snippet (Jay, is that you?), but there's > something obviously missing in the source code: Oh gosh, it's one of these 2.11 features again... OK, never mind, I'll just add it t

Re: LSR: "Modifying default values for articulation shorthand notation"

2008-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/8 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm... now it's not working; in fact, I can't get preview to work for > any snippet at the moment. Neil, there are a few unapproved snippet that don't work with the LSR; can you double-check them and add them to input/new whenever you think it's rele

Re: strange suggestAccidentals behaviour

2008-05-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/9 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've even gone so far as to figure out that it's the two b-naturals that are > the problem. If one or the other (it doesn't seem to matter) is a b-natural, > it's fine. As soon as both b's are natural, there's a problem. Mmmh. I think something has b

Re: Purcell and de Brossard scores ?

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/10 David Séverin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, Hi David, First off, just one comment: if you are a French-speaking LilyPonder, you might be interested in knowing that there's a special LilyPond-dedicated mailing list in French: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr

Re: how to move a text spanner

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/10 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > how can I move a text-spanner downwards or upwards? Greetings Stefan, this is covered in the Learning Manual: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Moving-objects.html Short answer: you can use something like \once \o

Re: LSR

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/11 Hugo Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lsr links are not functioning. Anyone know what's the problem? > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ I've already warned the developer/maintainer about it. Thanks, though. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: how to move a text spanner

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/11 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Somewhat longer answer: As is explained in the cited section of the manual, > the extra-offset should only be used when all else fails. Often it's > much better to instead modify the padding and/or staff-padding properties. Oh yes; in fact, after

Re: Subject: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/11 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, fine to be in the community. > But one more question: > How can I see, how these texinfo files look like? OK, time to introduce you to the way LilyPond is developed! http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary On this website, you can

Re: Subject: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
hat I take care of such technical problems. Hence the last sentence of my former mail: 2008/5/11 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is in case you'd be interested in actually seeing what the "real" > stuff looks like. But don't be afraid if this looks too

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

2008-05-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everyone, A new issue of the "Lilypond Report" is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-9 This week's issue discusses open-source hardware, accordion support, intermediate files, LSR downtimes and bug statistics. I'd also like to announce that next week's issue will b

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/14 Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From version 2.8 (I think) and up, find the file: > > midi.scm Is it not performance.cc? (in this case it would require a recompilation) We recently had the same question on the French mailing list. Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: Ghost Notes for Bass

2008-05-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/15 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, this was an ill chosen name of the macro, since \cr is > defined by > default to mean something completely different. In fact, you will get a big > surprise if you use the above definition and then use \cresc (which > internally > uses

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/15 Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps you have better luck if you change the "midi" to "mid" > and recompile. The question that was asked on the French list about also implied that these files should be typed as .mid by default... I tried to have a look at the MIDI 1.0 specs to see

Stack overflow problem

2006-10-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello, I'm a French composer and I'm planing to use lilypond for a rather ambitious project, so I need to know if it's reliable enough to process huge orchestral scores. Since I did'nt find anything big enough on mutopia, I've downloaded a midi file on the midi classical archive (yeah it sucks, I

Stack overflow problem

2006-10-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
I just forgot to add (about the Stack Overflow thing) : I'm running Lilypond 2.9.24 (but I had the same problem with 2.8 and 2.9.21) on a Slackware-based system. Thank you for your cooperation ; I still think it's the best music editing software in the world by the way :) _

I know this question was asked about a thousand times....

2006-10-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
...but since I consider myself as a newbie here, I hope you won't mind :) Here am I : I've (almost) written a whole opera under Sibelius 3, and I've been trying for ages to switch to Libre software, I mean our favorite Lilypond forever... The music I'm writing from now on is entirely genuine Lil

SystemStartBrace in PianoStaff

2006-10-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, I'm not very talented in Lilypond typesetting but -still- I wonder how comes the same Pianostaff code can make a "standard" Piano system Brace : http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/ChopinFF/O27/chopin-nocturne-8/chopin-nocturne-8-preview.png or a "small" one : http://www.lilypon

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello César ; Just a few words. I'm using the jEdit editor with the Lilypondtool plugin, which gives the ability to compile, preview and even play your score with simple shortcuts (a bit like the lilypond mac version) ; it is quite useable and very convenient to learn. I've tried denemo ; it's

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
ght have something to do with the emphasis on chordal Roman-numeral type analysis in conservatory education in the US (versus counterpoint in Europe). Anyway, it's fun to observe that Finale and Sibelius are American and English inventions, respectively, and rather vertical-oriented,

Re: Help, stem remove

2006-10-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
Is it me or did you type "transpar_A_nt" intead of transpar_E_nt ? Don't know if this might help... 2006/10/30, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It is much easier to help you if you include a full example of what you tried. The command you quote looks OK, except that you need a space before

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
Well as far as I know Windows Lilypond users are still missing the cute TortoiseSVN-like menu icons... ...maybe it could help... :) But that said, the work that has been done on MacOSX Lilypond.app is extremely valuable (even icon-wise...). I know there are plans to do the same with the Windows

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.0

2006-11-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi, I couldn't tell you how much valuable LilypondTool was for me ; this is definitely the way I would recommend to anyone starting with music typesetting (though I don't like jEdit very much, maybe a standalone lilpond-integrated editor would be much better, like in OSX-lilypond). There's still

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10 demo

2006-11-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
Bertalan, I've got one single word to say : AWESOME !!! Thank you so much for bringing us such a complete tool... 2006/11/13, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For a flash demo of the new LilyPondTool release please look at http://www.organum.hu/fileadmin/lilypondtool/parser.html It demonst

Re: Beaming strategy

2006-11-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
Yes, I am myself a "2-2-2-2-maniac" too. :) By the way, I wonder if this beaming tradition has once had any justification. Whatever, Music notation is still (and must keep) evolving, isnt'it ? Thank you for opening this discussion. 2006/11/20, Martial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That may be a good

Re: # or not before a value

2006-11-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
ondering why we do it that way. OK, I'm trying to stop laughing hysterically... (it's hard, though...) Sorry for this short useless post. I just couldn't help notice it. Thanks, Valentin Villenave. Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan wrote: > Hello > > some variables are set with just

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
As a matter of fact, I've always written every C and F clef with two dots, and it is indeed very useful (since there are many C clefs, and two F clefs, but only one G clef in modern music). AFAIK : As Far As I Know IMHO : In My Humble Opinion (maye this should be integrated in lilypond docs ...

Re: Wikibook in French

2006-11-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
Thank you very much Christophe. I haven't seen yet any mention concerning your Wiki on the Lilypond French list ; so if you haven't do so, maybe you should consider posting there as well... It seems to be quite a good introduction to Lilypond, IMHO much more beginner-friendly than the "official"

Re: Wikibook in French

2006-12-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
od idea to make one as well for main english Lilypond documentation or tutorial, this way we could link each french/english page like in Wikipedia , with the "In other languages" menu. Thanks, V.Villenave 2006/12/1, Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Le 30 nov. 0

Re: Tutorial

2006-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, I may be out-topic, but I would like to talk about how useful Wiki applications might be to Lily... For instance, Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan has started writing a quite good Wikibook, based on the official tutorial. http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_%C3%A0_LilyPond Curr

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2006/12/5, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There is already an unofficial wiki on http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page OK my bad. Though I thought I had indeed already seen there was a wiki somewhere, I wasn't able to find where it was (the fact is, I only tried with

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
Sounds indeed more relevant. Thank you Han-Wen. 2006/12/6, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Valentin Villenave escreveu: > understand why it hasn't been a success. But maybe it would be worth > trying to to put the footer links again. Can this be done easily, or > do

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2006/12/6, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It seems that you don't use LilyPondTool. If you used it, you would have a full-text search of LilyPond doc. See the screenshot at http://www.organum.hu/87.0.html As a matter of fact, I do use LilypondTool. But I just did'nt remember the doc was

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2006/12/7, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There is a search function, at the bottom of www.lilypond.org, even though one of the problems with it is that it often lists links to old versions of the manual first. Hmmm... I have indeed _never_ noticed it, and thank you very very much for hav

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
Thank you for your answer Bertalan. I'm CCing to the list because it is somehow related to the topic. Valentin Villenave írta: > Hi Bertalan, > > I would like to know how much localized is LilyPondTool, and if anyone > can help you translating it. I can, for instance, contri

"\times" vs "\tuplet" (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, I'm not trying here to "feed the troll", but however I'd like to try to add my two cents in this discussion. Just a brief foreword: tuplets are very, _very_ useful to many contemporary composers nowadays, as far as it gives them the ability to write complex rhythms and patterns with

Re: "\times" vs "\tuplet" (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/1/14, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Valentin Villenave wrote: > > "Tuplets are made with the minimalistic \t keyword". Comments: - If Erik's proposal to handle fractions such as 2/3 as a new argument type is implemented, then it will be trivial to def

Possible Sponsorship : Simplifying Triplets Input (Was: "\times" vs "\tuplet")

2007-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
you do not specify a tuplet argument, the argument last entered is used for the next tuplet. The argument of the first tuplet in input defaults to 2/3." Maybe you'll think it would just make things more complicated. Anyway, I'd be glad to sp

Re: Still don´t understand how to call LPbook

2007-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
rom page 25). Regards, Valentin Villenave. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Which LilyPond for Mac G3 (Pismo) running OS 10.4.7

2007-01-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
; you'll have to use the Terminal.app to invoke it through the command line. You can look, for instance, at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00528.html And do not forget, of course : http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app R

Re: reference manual, examples and MIDI

2007-02-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/2/2, Marc Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello! I am new to the world of Lilypond. I have to say that I am fascinated by the beautiful output it produces. But it's also a very complex program and I find myself confused many times. I am working with version 2.10.14 Welcome to LilyPond :)

New LilyPond-based Notation Software (Was: Midi2ly problem solved...)

2007-02-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
Why do I have this weird impression there hasn't been any true partnership between nordisc and LilyPond ? Anyway, I Cc this message to the LilyPond User's List, as far as I think a lot of people may be interested, and there are many things to say and to discuss about the new A-play

An extra accidental-style might be needed

2007-02-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everyone, most of the composers I know use a typographical convention I can't get LilyPond to automatically apply: --the first accidental in a bar is printed (like in 'default style) --if a note with an accidental is immediately repeated in the same bar (same pitch, same octave), the accid

An extra accidental-style might be needed

2007-02-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everyone, most of the composers I know use a typographical convention I can't get LilyPond to automatically apply: --the first accidental in a bar is printed (like in 'default style) --if a note with an accidental is immediately repeated in the same bar (same pitch, same octave), the accid

Any possibility to define a new accidental-style ?

2007-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
[Was: An extra accidental-style might be needed] Greetings, A few days ago, I tried to send a question on this list about the way accidentals are often written in recent scores : --the first accidental in a bar is printed (like in 'default style) --if a note with an accidental is immediately r

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
tml , http://jeffcovey.net/music/scores/ or http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html (by L.Conrad) have chosen to use our favorite software for their "archival" resources. I hope this might convince you to share my --and their-- faith in LilyPond :) Regards, Valentin Villenave.

Re: change to bold on stanzas 2, 4 , 6...

2007-04-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, this message has been forwarded (in French) to LilyPond-user-fr list --but anyone can still add his answer here :-) Regards, Valentin Villenave 2007/4/6, falcaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bonjour, I need to put 7 stanzas to a song and, to be mopre simple, I want to set the

Re: rest merging (willing to sponsor)

2007-04-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
I don't know if this could be accepted) instead of c4 r r2 | %(which is, I think, the only way this should be printed) What do you think about this behavior (which, by the way, could extend Arvid's proposal, and which I am myself willing to sp

Re: automatic rest grouping

2007-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
k you for adding that... Valentin Villenave. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: automatic rest grouping

2007-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/4/10, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: the music function could be added to the set of default music functions if you or anybody else takes the time to implement it. In my case, it's not about the time, but about the skills... Could we go for a sponsorship here? Who's interested? (I ca

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
about this interview but it's been a pleasure to discover it; I perfectly agree with Jan and Han-Wen about all of it, particularly their vision of MusicXML weakness and superficiality.) Regards, Valentin Villenave. ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: music scores search engine

2007-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/4/12, Mike Blackstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've installed the Nutch search engine software (http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/) on my site and use it to crawl and index websites that have good repositories of scores; finding a particular score is faster than searching via the major search engi

Re: [monique.combescure] mon message d'erreur:

2007-04-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
inscrire le cas échéant); voyez pour cela la page : http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr/ N'oubliez pas, au demeurant, de toujours veiller à préciser votre système d'exploitation (on peut déduire qu'il s'agit ici de Mac OSX,

Re: lilypond-placement of lyrics

2007-04-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
vous serez sans doute intéressé d'apprendre qu'il existe une liste de discussion spécialement dédiée aux utilisateurs francophones de LilyPond, que vous pourrez trouver ci-dessous : http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr/ Cordia

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/1 John Mandereau : > IIRC it should have started at 15.00 CET, so the premiere is most probably > finished. I hope this was a great success and the two other will go well > too. Greetings everybody, the past couple of weeks has been exhausting and has almost been preventing me from follo

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Trevor Daniels : > Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score > ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks > awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! Thanks a lot, but this is nothing compared to Nicolas' work :-) (I haven't had a chance to ha

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Wouldn't it be nice to reference some of these great works from lilypond.org? > > [I guess it's a bit late for a concert announcement for The Foreign > Affair'] Actually, I already have something in mind for the LilyPond community platform I plan to launch alongside

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Graham Percival : > Great! We can start integrating some of those into lilypond > proper in the coming weeks. Definitely. I'll talk more about that later. > Glad to hear that the performance was a success, and glad to hear > that you have more time in the future. I have a lot of pent-u

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/5 Francisco Vila : > Valentin, for non-git-aware people you could put a snapshot somewhere. Somewhere like http://repo.or.cz/w/opera_libre.git?a=snapshot;sf=tgz ? > A Zip file of everything is 2.5 Mb worth but the .git directory alone > weigths 2.3 Mb. Once deleted, the resulting zip has

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/5 Johannes Schindelin : > How about > >$ git archive --prefix=opera_libre/ --format=zip HEAD: > > ? It would be just great if repo.or.cz offered this option out-of-the-box... Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/5 Francisco Vila : > In another concession to windows users like my students, I'd like to > have a windows built-in version of main.ly (say winmain.ly) with the > foo/ path style in the includes, and which they could process directly > on their systems. Johannes: thank you very much, FOSS

Re: Lilypond Right to Left

2009-02-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/20 Fr. Michael Gilmary : > Hi! Greetings, > Is there any development in Lilypond for typesetting the music and lyrics from > right to left? We would use it for setting some Syriac hymns. Surprisingly enough, it is not (yet) supported. You can, however, print text from right to left in a m

Re: MIDI not played by LilypondTool

2009-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/28 MonAmiPierrot : > > How can I tell LilypondTool to look for ".MID" files or, if I can't, how can > I tell Lilypond to write a ".MIDI" file? thanks Bonjour MonAmi, :) you have two solutions: add an argument to LilyPond invokation (I believe it's -dmidi-extension "midi") upgrade your Li

Re: Create a midi file when .ly don't have any \score tag

2009-03-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/1 Sylvain MICHEL : > Good afternoon, > > I have a problem. I have generated a .ly file from a musicXML file but I don't > know where to write the \midi { } statement because there isn't any \score { > ... > } in the file (it works because I generated pdf and png without errors). I am > a >

Re: A "chordChanges toggle" for the Fretboard_engraver?

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/2 Carl D. Sorensen : > Yes, we should have this for fretBoards.  Please post a feature request to > bug-lilyp...@gnu.org. It's okay, I've added it as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=756 Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: [frogs] Re: Naming output files

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/26 Marek Klein : > > now it works as expected: > > (define counter-alist '()) > > (define (print-book-with parser book process-procedure) >   (let* >   ((paper (ly:parser-lookup parser '$defaultpaper)) >    (layout (ly:parser-lookup parser '$defaultlayout)) >    (output-suffix (

Re: [frogs] Re: Naming output files

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/2 Valentin Villenave : > Carl, Reinhold, should I open a tracker issue or will this fix get merged > soon? Oops -- just seen the new thread on -devel. My bad, forget it. Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/24 David Stocker : > I'm working on the first group of "missing" LilyPond Tab features and it > pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two > (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the > discussion, so when I have something, I'll sen

Re: opening documents

2009-03-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/4 : > I've read the tutorial...and done what it said. > when I double click on the icon that looks like a notethe PDF file is > not created for the parts. > For some reason it worked only for the score, and then for the subsequent > MIDI file that popped up ...but I can't get the violin

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/4 aliteralmind : > > The mind boggles  %-|   For about three weeks now, I have been reading LY > documentation, forum posts, snippets, and examples, yet I never came across > this. There is SO much information to absorb. I'm feeling more and more like > the documentation could be organized b

Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-03-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/4 Ralph Palmer : > I tried M-x lilypond-mode, and got an emacs error message that lilypond-mode > couldn't be found. > Anyone have a suggestion? Mmmh... jEdit? OK, I'm out :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: \bracket has no properties?

2009-03-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
> Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Does the \bracket markup command have no user-settable properties? >> I'd like to change the thickness of the bracket, but don't want to roll my >> own... 2009/3/6 Mats Bengtsson : > Unfortunately, it seems hard coded for the moment, but there's a comment in > the > f

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