Running Lilypond from Debian in a virtual machine via Qemu

[David Topham]

I upped the swap file to 3G and tried reducing the number of fonts by 
using this function:

make-pango-font-tree

That got it past the font loading, but still while processing uses up all 
memory and finally aborts with bad_alloc error.

Do you have any suggestions of how to debug this requirement for so much 
memory?

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\paper  {
  #(define fonts
    (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman"
                          "Nimbus Sans"
                          "Luxi Mono"
                          (/ staff-height pt 20)))
}

\relative c'{
  c1-\markup {
    roman,
    \sans sans,
    \typewriter typewriter. }
}
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