> I'm running 1.3.124 and I was wondering if someone could help me with
> the following questions:
>
> 1. Sometimes when I typset some music, the first note is too close
> (almost touching) to the time signature. What's a simple way to
> add some space at that point? This seems to happen only on lines
> with a lot of music, so I can get around this by adding a \break to
> split the line in half, but I was wondering if there was a better
> way.
You could try to play around with the spacing constants in
scm/basic-properties.scm
> 2. I'm using things like:
>
> restShiftUp = \property Voice.Rest \override #'staff-position = #4
>
> to play with rest location. It works fine, but lily gives me the
> following warning:
>
> warning: Can't find property type-check for `staff-position'.
> Perhaps you made a typing error?
>
> Should I worry?
It seems that staff-position is missing in
scm/grob-property-description.scm; a bug!
> 3. How do I escape curly braces ("{", "}") when passing strings to
> TeX? For example, I'd like to do something like:
>
> piece = "This {\sl is} a test.";
Try piece = "This \{\\sl is\} a test."; (also the backslash
needs an escape).
> 4. Finally, I'm having trouble using \mark when, and only when, I
> \include "paper23.ly" or \include "paper26.ly". In other words,
> \mark works fine if I use other paper sizes. With those, I get
> errors like:
>
> paper output to 24012001.tex...warning: can't find font: `cmr14'
> warning: Loading default font
> Backtrace:
> 0* [Axis_group_interface::group_extent_callback #<Grob LineOfScore >
> 1]
> 1* [Side_position::aligned_side #<Grob RehearsalMark > 1]
> 2* [Grob::molecule_extent #<Grob RehearsalMark > 1]
> 3* [Text_item::brew_molecule #<Grob RehearsalMark >]
> 4* cmr-alist
>
> ERROR: In expression cmr-alist:
> ERROR: Unbound variable: cmr-alist
> ly2dvi: LilyPond failed: lilypond 24012001 2>&1
Hmm, Lilypond asks for cmr of sizes 4,5,6,7,8,10,12,14,16 and 20
whereas a typical teTeX installation includes 5,6,7,8,9,10,12,17.
Either we could change Lilypond to use only these sizes or
we have to start fiddling with magnifications again.
As a quick hack to implement the former option, you could apply
the attached patch. The result will probably look a bit odd.
/Mats
--- scm/font.scm.orig Wed Jan 17 23:47:22 2001
+++ scm/font.scm Wed Jan 24 10:48:07 2001
@@ -65,41 +65,41 @@
((-4 medium upright number feta-nummer 5) . "feta-nummer5")
((-5 medium upright number feta-nummer 4) . "feta-nummer4")
- ((4 medium upright roman cmr 20) . "cmr20")
- ((3 medium upright roman cmr 16) . "cmr16")
- ((2 medium upright roman cmr 14) . "cmr14")
+ ((4 medium upright roman cmr 17) . "cmr17")
+ ((3 medium upright roman cmr 17) . "cmr17")
+ ((2 medium upright roman cmr 12) . "cmr12")
((1 medium upright roman cmr 12) . "cmr12")
((0 medium upright roman cmr 10) . "cmr10")
((-1 medium upright roman cmr 8) . "cmr8" )
((-2 medium upright roman cmr 7) . "cmr7" )
((-3 medium upright roman cmr 6) . "cmr6" )
((-4 medium upright roman cmr 5) . "cmr5" )
- ((-5 medium upright roman cmr 4) . "cmr4" )
+ ((-5 medium upright roman cmr 5) . "cmr5" )
- ((3 medium italic roman cmti 16) . "cmti16")
- ((2 medium italic roman cmti 14) . "cmti14")
+ ((3 medium italic roman cmti 12) . "cmti12")
+ ((2 medium italic roman cmti 12) . "cmti12")
((1 medium italic roman cmti 12) . "cmti12")
((0 medium italic roman cmti 10) . "cmti10")
((-1 medium italic roman cmti 8) . "cmti8")
((-2 medium italic roman cmti 7) . "cmti7")
- ((-3 medium italic roman cmti 6) . "cmti6")
+ ((-3 medium italic roman cmti 7) . "cmti7")
- ((2 bold upright roman cmbx 14) . "cmbx14")
+ ((2 bold upright roman cmbx 12) . "cmbx12")
((1 bold upright roman cmbx 12) . "cmbx12")
((0 bold upright roman cmbx 10) . "cmbx10")
((-1 bold upright roman cmbx 8) . "cmbx8")
((-2 bold upright roman cmbx 7) . "cmbx7")
- ((4 medium upright typewriter cmtt 20) . "cmtt20")
- ((3 medium upright typewriter cmtt 16) . "cmtt16")
- ((2 medium upright typewriter cmtt 14) . "cmtt14")
+ ((4 medium upright typewriter cmtt 17) . "cmtt17")
+ ((3 medium upright typewriter cmtt 17) . "cmtt17")
+ ((2 medium upright typewriter cmtt 12) . "cmtt12")
((1 medium upright typewriter cmtt 12) . "cmtt12")
((0 medium upright typewriter cmtt 10) . "cmtt10")
((-1 medium upright typewriter cmtt 8) . "cmtt8" )
((-2 medium upright typewriter cmtt 7) . "cmtt7" )
((-3 medium upright typewriter cmtt 6) . "cmtt6" )
((-4 medium upright typewriter cmtt 5) . "cmtt5" )
- ((-5 medium upright typewriter cmtt 4) . "cmtt4" )
+ ((-5 medium upright typewriter cmtt 5) . "cmtt5" )
;; should use the same brace font every where and fix C++ code.
((2 * * braces feta-braces 26) . "feta-braces26")
