[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: still newbie
From: |
Laura Conrad |
Subject: |
Re: still newbie |
Date: |
14 Oct 2000 07:37:51 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) |
>>>>> "Atte" == Jensen <Atte> writes:
Atte> I installed lilypond 1.3.84 (and guile 1.4) from the rpm's
Atte> found on the lilypond homepage, but I still haven't been
Atte> able to test my setup, because I don't have a working .ly
Atte> file.
I always use twinkle.ly. If you're installing from rpm, I think you
need the lilypond-documentation rpm, and it comes in
/usr/doc/lilypond<version>. If you install from source, it's in
lilypond<version>/input.
Atte> So I tried "lilypond -f ps" on the version cenverted .ly
Atte> file instead and got a postscript file which looked pretty,
Atte> exept the text in the top was missing
This is probably the letter/a4 paper problem. You need to get
ghostscript configured to know that you want a4. I think the way to
do that might be to edit /usr/share/ghostscript/<version>/gs_init.ps.
Atte> Then I converted an .abc file with abc2ly and ran "lilypond
Atte> -f ps" (the tex file produced by lilypond hung latex) and
Atte> the output .ps file looked ok, exept for the text at the top
Atte> was missing and some line breaking was lost.
The line breaking is not preserved in the current version of abc2ps.
I personally don't want it to be, because I think either lilypond or
abc2ps is able to make better decisions about what the length of the
line is than I can typing from a 16th century facsimile, but it should
probably be an option in a future version.
Atte> Plus I expected the chords to be above the music. And It
Atte> didn't like my ° for diminished, so it just left it out.
How are you entering that in the ABC? I'll look at what abc2ly does
about chords.
Atte> And what should I think of the feta-somthing.tfm and .600pk files
Atte> generated in the working directory??
I figured this one out only yesterday. (With help from Matt.) You
want to make a link from /usr/share/texmf/fonts/public/lilypond to the
lilypond mf directory (in my case /usr/local/share/lilypond/mf, but with an
rpm it's probably /usr/share/lilypond/mf). And you want to make sure
that MFINPUTS isn't set. And then the feta* files will be generated
in a central location instead of in the directory with the .ly files.
I'll send you the current abc2ly (which I made some changes to that
got into 3.95) off list.
--
Laura (mailto:address@hidden , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139