Re: short postscript?

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Hi,
> 
> Because of the current bug in the building of the documentation,
> I might be missing some information,

The patch in 
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-music/2001-April/000255.html
fixes the compilation error for 1.3.145. However, I find it most
convenient to download the gzipped postscript version of the 
manual from the web page.

> so here is what I saw. I ran
> with my newly compiled 1.3.145:
> 
>       lilypond -fps wtk1-fugue1.ly
> 
> ("wtk1-fugue1.ly" is in mutopia/J.S.Bach) and got the messages
> listed below. But the troubling thing is that the generated postscript
> can not be read beyond the first page. 

The direct postscript option is still very experimental and for
any serious typesetting you should use ly2dvi -P. I get exactly
the same problem as you report.

> kpathsea: Running mktextfm --destdir 
> /var/spool/texfonts/tfm/lilypond/1.3.145/  cmr8
> mktextfm: /var/spool/texfonts/tfm/lilypond/1.3.145/cmr8.tfm already exists.
> mktexlsr: /var/spool/texfonts: directory not writable. Skipping...
> rm: : No such file or directory
> /usr/pkg/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texfonts/ls-R unwritable.

It seems that your teTeX installation isn't correct. 
The directory pointed to by kpsexpand '$VARTEXFONTS'
should be writable by all users, since it's used for
generated font files, see the teTeX manual (run texdoc TETEXDOC).

   /Mats