On Monday, 9 November 1998, Bob van der Poel writes:
> I hadn't realized that the Jeff's original post had been a copy of one
> to the gnu-music list so that when I sent of my reply (and it might have
> been a tad snotty, for which I appologize) I didn't copy it here. So,
> I've done so at the bottom of this message.
>
> However, the above links demonstrate the problems with lily...
>
> I download the stars ps file, decompressed it and tried to view with
> ghostview. I get a undefined lily.ps message. I also tried to get the
> source file from above and my browser tells me it doesn't exist.
Well, here i am trying to advocate Lily's output, and i'm only getting
bugreports. Oh well, the problems seem not too serious...
Problem 1: Two weeks ago we branched Lily into a stable and an experimental
branch. We now have TeX and PostScript (preliminary testing)
output, and now the output from dvips is not self-contained
anymore (bug).
Problem 2: at 1.00 am i make a typo in an url (but there's even an
index.html in the containing directory)
If you don't have one of the latest Lilys installed, you'll need lily.ps:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond/out-www/lily.ps
(the need for this extra file is silly, and will get fixed in pl4 or 5)
PostScript output of MUP and Lily:
http://www.Arkkra.com/doc/star.ps
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond/input/test/out-www/stars-and-stripes
.ps.gz
The input:
http://www.Arkkra.com/doc/star.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond/input/test/out-www/stars-and-stripes.ly.txt
> As I recall, I had different (but similar) problems when I tried out
> lily about a year ago....
Then those would probably have been as trivial to fix as the problems you
had yesterday night ;-)
Please don't go around and nitpick on Free projects like Lily when you
have troubles, but report them! You don't have to pay for a support
contract or anything before you may send-in bug reports?! And most
silly problems you report /get fixed/. We get lots of bug-reports
(often with fixes :-) and those are invaluable for Lily's development.
> On another point...I didn't know this discussion group even existed. How
> does one subscribe? I checked out gnu.org but this group is not listed
> in their list of groups.
It's all in Lily's documentation, and has been on display on her websites
for ages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
For discussions concerning the GNU Music project,
to subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe"
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is
archived at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Here's my message to Jeff:
> ...................
>
> [..]
>
> I realize the the article ended up reading as an overview of notation
> programs. It was really intended as a review of MUP, but I decided
> (perhaps incorrectly) to overview the programs I'd tried before deciding
> on MUP.
>
> I actually did try an early version of lilypond. Frankly, it just didn't
> work....
Well, if "It doesn't work" any time soon again, be sure to let us know.
Greetings,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond
