Richard Chonak a écrit :
> In what sense are the packages "mandatory"? The "build-essential"
> package is not automatically installed with Debian or Ubuntu; users who 
> want to build packages need to add it.
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/build-essential
>   

Jérémie answered this question, i will just add that normally users are
not really supposed to use dpkg-buildpackage, it is just that I haven't
really finished a release yet (but it is closed ;)).

>> for the error in the font, I didn't realize I had a too recent fontforge 
>> when I edited the font the last time... and the stupid developer changed 
>> the sfd format one more time, sadly it's impossible to convert it in a 
>> more ancient sfd format, so you will have to upgrade to a recent 
>> fontforge to compile the last greciliae font...
>>     
>
> Since ubuntu has not released a package for the new fontforge, I'll stay 
> with the old font for now.   I've built an ubuntu system under vmware 
> just for gregorio, and I'd like to keep it simple.
>   

Ok, the only things I changed are the natural symbol (which was totally
horrible), and the vertical episemus that I have shortened for more
clear scores... but noone should use the vertical episemus anymore
(unless you interpret it like Solesmes in the 30's).

>> DVI is a *totally dumb*  format (try to see how it's done, it's almost 
>> ridiculous), no one should use it to view or (worse) exchange things, it 
>> is only a temporary format... The fonts are not included in the dvi 
>> file, and so your dvi viewer tries to find them on your system, which 
>> has two consequences : it sometimes fails (like in your case), and you 
>> can't exchange a dvi file with someone who don't have exactly the same 
>> system... So it's more wise to use pdf or ps...
>>     
>
> Perhaps it would be useful to add a shell script to the gregorio package 
> to automate the steps  lamed-odvips-ps2pdf, to make it clear that the 
> dvi output should not be considered as a usable product.
>   

On recent TeX distributions (like the TeXLive 2007 of ubuntu), it is not
necessary anymore to use odvips instead of dvips, as dvips has been
patched to accept omega fonts. So you can simply do dvipdf instead of
odvips-ps2pdf. But anyway, all this is written in the documentation that
I still have to translate, sorry...

>> Thank you for your feedback, if you have more questions, don't hesitate 
>> to ask them !
>>     
>
> Are you looking for collaborators?
>   

YES! of course! I have been working for two years on this project, and
now that I have finished a huge part (the C and TeX part), I'm not
motivated enough to launch the final part (a GUI)... I already have
something started that almost work (in Python/Qt4), but there is still a
huge work to do... I would be really happy if you helped me in this part!

Thank you,
-- 
Elie


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