Re: Black mensural notation

[Andrew Hawryluk]

I tried running it on a current development snapshot this week, but it
didn't have enough memory to run nicely and bogged down my computer
with swap traffic (I've got 2 MB here). I gave up on it before it
finished. Does it take long to compile the PDF on your system?

Andrew

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Lukas Pietsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:49 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>> Very impressive!  Could you try to make it work with the current
>> development version?  The next steps could then be adding the missing
>> glyph shapes to the lilypond fonts, followed by either writing a new
>> engraver or modifying/fixing/correcting the existing ones.q
>
> Unfortunately, I've had some problems getting any other version than the
> current standard package from my Linux distribution cleanly installed on
> my system (probably I'm just not Linux-savvy enough). I've now uploaded
> a test file http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/mensuraltest.ly and the
> expected output http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/mensuraltest.pdf, with the
> same snippets as in the documentation pdf. If anybody could be so kind
> as to try and run that through their Lilypond installation?
>
> I'd heard about the possibility of writing one's own engravers in
> Scheme, which would certainly have been the more elegant way of doing
> most of this, but I couldn't find it accessibly documented anywhere and
> it didn't seem to be supported on the older versions anyway.
> Lukas
>
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