Hello,
I have been using lilypond 1.2.17 for a while with some satisfaction. The
worst trouble I had was that the default dynamic font could not be used
because mktexpk would crash on it. When I set the font for dynamic marks
to italic it worked, although it did not look as nice as it could be.
I thought might be something silly with LaTeX so I tried an upgrade,
getting the newest tetex packages available in February but that did not
change things. I upgraded my linux box from 6.0 to 6.4, including a
reinstall of all tex things and again the problem persisted.
In the mailing list archive I saw that the development versions were
claimed to be usable so I downloaded a few of them but without success.
Either they do not compile, or they do, like 1.3.51 and 1.3.52, but then
ly2dvi crashes during the latex process, saying that the "\theheader" and
"\thefooter" were not defined. The rpm of 1.3.46 says that it cannot find
my libguile.so. although it is definitely there (in /usr/local/lib).... I
hate rpms.
When I now try to go back to 1.2.17, because after these frustrations I am
willing to live with ugly dynamic markings, 1.2.17 has a font problem:
fermatas instead of quarter notes etcetera.
What did I try to solve it?
- removing all old lilypond directories found with "find /usr -name
'*lilypond*' -print' (except for the docs or mans)
- running the clean-fonts.sh script both in the /var directory and
in the directory where I edit my '.ly' sources
- removing the old source directory, unpacking the 1.2.17 source tarball
and doing a fresh 'make install'.
Installation goes fine, new fonts are created, ly2dvi runs fine but xdvi
shows me bullshit.
This is a total catastrophe. As far as I can see, I did the most thorough
reinstall and all necessary resources are uptodate. Still I cannot use
lilypond, except for producing midi files. Very frustrating. I wasted a
lot of time and energy in this, maybe I should have mailed earlier, but
somehow I think it should be something very obvious&trivial.
What did I do wrong, what more checks could I do?
Ciao,
David Boersma
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PS: in the online reference manual, in the section "Lyrics and chords",
something is wrong in the "the river is flowing" example: the text is not
properly put below the right notes, the melismas go wrong. I tried to use
the addlyrics command in the same way for my own music but with the same
odd result. I just resorted to adding the durations explicitly to the
words. But it would be nice to have the 'addlyrics' and 'automelismata'
properly working.
