With the symbolic link solution, I'm "content" on the command line. As
to Frescobaldi, I just tried again with the same results.
> Le dimanche 27 août 2023 à 19:30 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit :
>> Mixed results... So, this is a "thanks, but..."
>>
>> The Frescobaldi .deb suggested by those
Adding back the list.
Le dimanche 27 août 2023 à 19:30 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit :
> Mixed results... So, this is a "thanks, but..."
>
> The Frescobaldi .deb suggested by those instructions is 3.2. The Flatpak is
> 3.3.
>
> Using the Flatpak Frescobaldi, clicking the pull-down menu "Lilypond ->
> Le 27 août 2023 à 21:52, Kevin Cole a écrit :
>
> That just leads to:
>
> fatal error: compiled without CAIRO_BACKEND
>
> which means I will have to install and keep track of yet another version of
> LilyPond -- this one compiled from scratch...
Compiling from scratch is (of course)
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:09 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Try the Cairo backend, adding -dbackend=cairo on the command line or
> #(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo) in the file. It is partly because of font
> issues like this that the legacy SVG backend is usually inferior to the new
> Cairo backend.
Try the Cairo backend, adding -dbackend=cairo on the command line or
#(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo) in the file. It is partly because of font
issues like this that the legacy SVG backend is usually inferior to the new
Cairo backend.
% SVG output looks more like "English lyrics by ROBERTB RYAN"
% with the whitespace in the wrong place, after the "B" in "Bryan"
% rather than before.
%
% PDF output produces correctly "English lyrics by ROBERT BRYAN"
%
\version "2.24.2"
\language "english"
\header {
poet = \markup { "English
