Re: lilypond-book snips the letters "fi" from all my music

[Christopher Meredith]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> I don't really know about this, but it looks like a ligature problem.
> fi is al "ligature" and in many fonts there are specific glyphs for this. so
> f + i will be replaced by one 'fi' glyph.
> If Tex does this but there is no respective glyph in the font you should get
> the result you have described.
>
> HTH
> Urs
>
>
> Am 02.10.2010 17:12, schrieb Christopher Meredith:
>>
>> I've got a bizarre problem. I'm using lilypond-book and for some
>> reason, it is cutting the letters "fi" wherever they appear (as long
>> as they are lowercase). So "fine" become "  ne" and "first" become "
>> rst". Blank spaces are left where the letters once were. Here's an
>> example .lytex file:
>>
>> %!TEX TS-program = Lilypond-LaTeX
>> \documentclass{book}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \section{Amazing Grace}
>>
>> \lilypondfile[staffsize=17.82,line-width=18\cm]{/home/theophile/Desktop/Music/supplement/abstraction/Amazing_Grace.ly}
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>>
>> Compiling the source .ly works fine. AFter running lilypond-book, I go
>> into the build directory and the rendered pdfs all have the text
>> properly. It's only the final pdf that's messed up.
>>
>> I'm using version 2.12.3. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!

That was precisely it. Thanks!