Re: spectacular ly2dvi failure

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Chris Lipe <address@hidden> writes:

> I am running Red Hat Linux 7.2, and lilypond version 1.4.11-1.  I'm
> trying to compile a moderately large piece (75 measures of full band
> score), and I get the following error when invoking ly2dvi:
>
> Analyzing default.tex...
> Running LaTeX...
> error: latex: command exited with value 256

Ok, so latex bombs out.

> Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [8]
> Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [9]
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=350001].
> \botalign #1->\vbox to 0pt{\vss #1}
>                                    l.82057    }
>             %
> Output written on default.dvi (9 pages, 507964 bytes).
> Transcript written on default.log.

This is just a wild guess, but it looks like your octaves get messed
up.  If you produce notes that are really high or low, you get lots of
silly ledger lines, that eat tex's capacity.  

You could try making noteheads transparent, like so

\score{
        <
        \property Score.NoteHead \override #'transparent = ##t
        % ... your music here
        >
}

and see if tex / ly2dvi will process your score, and look where it
goes wrong.  If it's something else, we'll have to look further.

Greetings,
Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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