I understand your position very well, Graham. But we should also try to improve the way of helping via the mailing list to convince newcomers of the power of LilyPond. What about providing a signatur
Graham Percival wrote: In a few months, these will be second nature. There's no point typing out "please see the Notation Reference 1.2.3" every time. NR 1.2.3 is unambiguous, and saves time for peop
Quoting NJW <address@hidden>: The solution (that is, one solution ;-) ) is to put it in a book. The prospect of using the \book command seemed a bit too advanced, but is actually quite straightforwar
Since Python is included in the LilyPond installation package, there is no need to install any separate Python package. I don't really know anything specific about the MacOS, but haven't seen any sim
If you search the mailing list archives (don't forget those for lilypond-devel and user-lilypond) over the last 2-3 weeks, you will notice that most of these issues have already been discussed and "s
Please search the mailing list archives for details, but if I recall correctly, there was a problem with certain versions of the ec-fonts-mftrace package. /Mats I've just started using Lilypond. Than
The documentation of both the \voiceOne ... \voiceFour and the \shiftXXX macros should be clarified. For the moment, I think it's easiest to read the actual definitions in ly/property-init.ly /Mats T
Please rerun setup.exe and make sure to follow the instructions at http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html on how to select the lilypond package. Note that setup.exe will only download the pack
LearnMan NotRef IntRef MusGloss SnipList These don't provide any advantage. They are still incomprehensible for newcomers and they are longer to write and harder to remember for the rest of us. /Mats
Try adding a \slurUp before the \acciaccatura. I hope you know that you can save some typing by using \relative mode (in this specific case, where you have many chords that are larger than a quarter,
Fixed in CVS! /Mats Also, lilypond-book does currently not support plain TeX in any way, since it includes each score line as a .eps/.pdf using \includegraphics{...}, so there's no need to consider p
I no longer remember the details but it was necessary, obviously :-) What about saying address@hidden instead? The `=' is just syntactical sugar and not needed. Does it work then? Thanks for remindi
It seems that the Turkish babel package redefines some symbol. However, I have no idea why we have that line in the generated code. If it's necessary, then we could just as well replace it by \makeat
I think you are confusing things! What we talked about below is the order within the \score{...} block. If you use variables, then the only rule is that you have to define a variable before you use i
\override Fingering #'direction > = #down worked a treat, thank you. c4^"$\underline{3}$" however invokes a different font. I've tried several variations unsuccesfully to revert to the finger font -
Finally it worked! In Slackware 10 keeping lilypond-profile.sh in /etc/profile.d/ does not work. To make it work I did the following: Copied buildcripts/out/lilypond-profile to /usr/bin Then, I appen
OK, now you have managed to source the file. However, it seems that your installation of teTeX doesn't behave as it should. What does the following sequence of commands return? unset TEXMF kpsexpand
I changed the lilypond-profile and now it seems to be getting further. I changed This: TEXMF="{$datadir,"`kpsexpand \\$TEXMF`"}" To this: TEXMF="{" "$datadir,"`kpsexpand \\$TEXMF`"}" The extra { is n
Here's more debug. It still doesn't make any sense. There is a missing } -- Mats Bengtsson's Original Message -- Sure. If you'll do the same. It would be a lot easier to keep it on the list if you di
Hi Mats, I my God such a little thing like -o option in dvips causes so much trouble!! I thought that the fonts-things causes the missing output file. It works when I give the -o FILENAME option to d