Re: Ties, distance from barline at a system break

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi Kieren,

Finally I got it working, albeit "Non senza fatiga" (like when you managed to play Frescobaldi's Toccata IX, at least according to Frescobaldi himself). 

Since I do not yet know the right way to install things downloaded from github.com/openlilylib, I merely copied the folder "snippets-master" to a LilyPond folder in my Dropbox and used  \include  "full_path_to_shapeII.ily" in the ME I posted. I then  found that I had to include in the same way another file, "lilypond-version-predicates.ily", which, though it is in "Resources/share/lilypond/current/_internal/utilities" of the LilyPond.app, nevertheless could not be found. No idea why not.

Anyway, in the end it worked and the result is what I hoped it would be.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Robert

On 6 Oct 2016, at 13:53 , Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Robert,

Did you download and install the openlilylib framework on your path?

No, I didn't. Frankly, I had no idea that something like that would be necessary.

\shapeII currently requires it (though I hope one day, \shapeII or similar is built in to the main distribution of Lilypond).

There was no separate log-file but I copied he text from the console (I use TeXShop as the LilyPond editor) and pasted it in the Post Script of this mail. It speaks of a fatal error but nevertheless generates a nice pdf (with no improvement of the tie-distances of course). But I should have noticed the error warnings like " error: unknown escaped string: `\shapeII' " etc.

Yes — that’s the key. And the reason for the empty measure.

Anyway, I will follow your advice and download and install  the   framework on my path.

Let us know how it goes!
Kieren.
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