Re: lilypond drum problem(?)

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Joerg Anders <address@hidden> writes:

> Almost all examples which have a sufficient long drum staff crash the with:
>
>   GNU LilyPond 1.5.54
>   Running LaTeX...
>   error: latex: command exited with value 256
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/local/bin/ly2dvi", line 852, in ?
>       run_latex (files, outbase, extra_init)
>     File "/usr/local/bin/ly2dvi", line 631, in run_latex
>       system (cmd)
>     File "/usr/local/bin/ly2dvi", line 229, in system
>       error (msg)
>     File "/usr/local/bin/ly2dvi", line 127, in error
>       raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
>   Exiting ...
>
> What's the problem here?

If you run ly2dvi -V (verbose), you'll see:

    ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=1263001].

This often is caused by too many ledger lines.  If you make note heads
transparent, you can easily spot the problem, 


 \score {
        <
                % transparent note head for debugging:
                \property Score.NoteHead \override #'transparent = ##t
            
                \property Score.skipBars = ##t
                \context Staff="drum2" \drumA
        >
 }

Greetings,
Jan.

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