Font Troubles

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Jarvis
Hello! I've wrestled all evening with Ghostscript, Lilypond, TeX, LaTeX, and Denemo. For the life of me, I cannot get Lilypond to make *beautiful* sheet music. Not printed, not converted to PDF, not saved into a PostScript file, won't look nice in Ghostview, nor even seen from within The GIMP.

spectacular ly2dvi failure

2002-05-04 Thread Chris Lipe
Hello, I am running Red Hat Linux 7.2, and lilypond version 1.4.11-1. I'm trying to compile a moderately large piece (75 measures of full band score), and I get the following error when invoking ly2dvi: Analyzing default.tex... Running LaTeX... error: latex: command exited with value 256

number of systems per page

2002-05-04 Thread Carlos Garcia Suarez
I am about to finish transcription of a Bach piece for piano. It looks nice except that I only have5 systems (i.e. pair of cleff and bass staffs) in each page, and I would like to have 6. How can make them fit? How do I reduce the inter system spacing to allow for one additional system in

Re: spectacular ly2dvi failure

2002-05-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Chris Lipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Red Hat Linux 7.2, and lilypond version 1.4.11-1. I'm trying to compile a moderately large piece (75 measures of full band score), and I get the following error when invoking ly2dvi: Analyzing default.tex... Running LaTeX... error: latex:

Re: Font Troubles

2002-05-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Dave Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've wrestled all evening with Ghostscript, Lilypond, TeX, LaTeX, and Denemo. For the life of me, I cannot get Lilypond to make *beautiful* sheet music. I'm sorry to hear that, but you will soon. Extra stuff that might be relevant ... $ lilypond -f

Font Troubles

2002-05-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded and tried to install some more fonts, but the accompanying README.txt file explained only where to point certain files from the following archives: fetatype1-1_4_10.tgz fetatype1common.tgz I managed to find feta16.pfa and friends

RE: Installing Lilypond 1.4.12.jcn5 for Windows fails.

2002-05-04 Thread Bas Wassink
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: vrijdag 3 mei 2002 23:31 Aan: Bas Wassink CC: Lilypond User Onderwerp: Re: Installing Lilypond 1.4.12.jcn5 for Windows fails. Anyway, could you please send your setup.log and setup.log.full?

Re: Installing Lilypond 1.4.12.jcn5 for Windows fails.

2002-05-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bas Wassink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded 'setup.exe' last wednesday, so I suppose it's the latest version. Yes, ok. I have also tried rerunning setup and selecting 'reinstall' on every package, but the problem remains the same. I've included 'setup.log' and 'setup.log.full'

Re: number of systems per page

2002-05-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am about to finish transcription of a Bach piece for piano. It looks nice except that I only have 5 systems (i.e. pair of cleff and bass staffs) in each page, and I would like to have 6. How can make them fit? How do I reduce the inter system spacing to allow for

Re: number of systems per page

2002-05-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Carlos Garcia Suarez wrote: I am about to finish transcription of a Bach piece for piano. It looks I you use the pianostaff-environment and don't have any knees (beams crossing the staves) then you can save a lot of space by changing to the grandstaff-environment. If you need the

building guile

2002-05-04 Thread Greg Guest
Hi, I am using Lilypond on cygwin and am trying to get it onto my Linux box Mandrake 8.0. None of the binaries work, and although I built guile (apparently successfully), when I try to run ./configure in lilypond, it complains that I can't find either libqthreads.so.0 or guile-config I

French text

2002-05-04 Thread Greg Guest
Hi Another question. I found how to do French accents in the online docs, but have not found how to make a cedilla for c's. Could you tell me. TIA Greg

Re: building guile

2002-05-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Greg Guest wrote: and although I built guile (apparently successfully), when I try to run ./configure in lilypond, it complains that I can't find either libqthreads.so.0 or guile-config which guile? (guile --version) -Rune ___ Lilypond-user

Re: building guile

2002-05-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Greg Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using Lilypond on cygwin and am trying to get it onto my Linux box Mandrake 8.0. None of the binaries work, Could you try to be a bit more specific; what is the command you give, and what is the error message? I've got a Mandrake 8.2 partition here,

Re: French text

2002-05-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi, In TeX, cédille command is \c For instance, c cédille : \c{c} or \c c El se\~{n}or est\`{a} bien, gar\c{c}on. \'{E}l est\`{a} aqu\'{\i}. (examples from LaTeX, a Document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport) Nicolas Sat, 4 May 2002 13:53:54 -0400, tu as dit : 1. (*) text/plain

Re: French text

2002-05-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As an alternative to the answer you already got, you could also simply use the cedilla key on your keyboard. The output should be correct as long as you use ly2dvi (since it uses the latin1 input encoding), even though Lilypond itself will not recognize the character while it calculates the