Re: PDF (old hat) and lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Mats wrote:
> > They are already available in your TeX installation, try
> > dvips -Ppdf (at least if you are using teTeX, see the 
> > documentation 'texdoc TETEXDOC'). If you don't use the 
> > Type1 feta fonts, you'll get some warning since dvips will
> > try to make high resolution versions of all remaining 
> > bitmapped fonts, but it still works well.
> > 
> >    /Mats
> 
> dvips is making the same poor output for the words, the music looks fine. 
> dvips
> is trying to make 8000 dpi bitmap fonts but fails in conjunction with Deskjet
> mode. I can't find any pfb files for European Computer Modern on my system;
> however, such were generated by the author of the TeXtrace program, but only
> made available for download on a one-by-one basis, not as a single tarball,
> which, up to now, kept me from taking the plunge. I'll probably have to do it,
> then, or trace them all by myself (tiring, troublesome, tedious)... Oh well.
> Anybody has a better idea?
> 
> I'll drop a line to the TeXtrace author if he could make a comfortable 
> tarball.
> Let's see what happens.

As long as you use the default font encoding (OT1), the
BlueSky Type1 fonts supplied with teTeX and MiKTeX work
well (OK, letters like ö are typeset using two font symbols
instead of a single dedicated one, but that's only a 
problem if you want to cut and paste from the PDF). 
This means that ordinary ly2dvi output + dvips -Ppdf
gives nice Type1 fonts. If you use lilypond-book or
use some other wrapper LaTeX files, I'd simply remove
the \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}. As long as you keep
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} it should work well.

At work, we've actually bought European Computer Modern
Type1 fonts from Micropress, but it seems that there's
a free version coming from the TeXTrace author really 
soon now.

   /Mats