Dear all, I've just this week discovered Gregorio. Previously I'd been using the fairly ancient French program 'Gregoire' to produce simple plainchant output but obviously Gregorio produces much nicer output!
I used to be a programmer in my younger days before I became a Franciscan Sister but I've never had any experience of TeX so I'm floundering in deep water a little at the moment. I've installed Gregorio 2.0 and TexLive2010 on Win7, and initially although Gregorio produced .tex output just fine, I couldn't get from there to the pdf file without errors. Eventually I installed the gregoriotex.tex file provided by Tracy in this message:- https://mail.gna.org/public/gregorio-users/2011-01/msg00063.html and this fixed the problem - hurrah! (although I have no idea what changes were made in that file and why). Then, since I was happily producing scores via TeXWorks, I decided to install Scribus 1.4.0rc3 and try to get the Gregorio integration working there. I inevitably had the problem with gregorio-scribus.lua which needed a couple of lines changing to *local f = arg[1]* and local *dir = arg[2] *and* *--interaction=nonstopmode added to the spawn command. I thought after fixing these that I was on to a winner, but although Gregorio now successfully runs without Scribus, the output has errors, as per the following:- ** This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.2-2010071421 (Web2C 2010) (rev 3736) restricted \write18 enabled. (./scribus_temp_render_qH3556.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> LuaTeX adaptation of babel <v3.8l-luatex-1.4> and hyphenation patterns for engl ish, dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded. (c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/extsizes/extarticle.cls Document Class: extarticle 1996/10/08 v1.0 Non Standard LaTeX document class (c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo) ... ... etc ... (c:/texlive/2010/../texmf-local/tex/generic/gregoriotex/gregoriotex-symbols.tex ))) (./scribus_temp_render_qH3556.aux) (c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd) *geometry* driver: auto-detecting *geometry* detected driver: pdftex (c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).] ) (./scribus_temp_render_qH3556-score.tex !* Undefined control sequence.* *\begingregorioscore ...\ifgreluatex \gredirectlua* *{gregoriotex.atScoreBeggin...* *l.3 \begingregorioscore* *%* *! Undefined control sequence.* *\endgregorioscore ...l \ifgreluatex \gredirectlua* *{gregoriotex.atScoreEnd()}...* *l.30 \endgregorioscore* *%* ... ... etc ... Output written on scribus_temp_render_qH3556.pdf (1 page, 31846 bytes). Transcript written on scribus_temp_render_qH3556.log. scribus_temp_render_qH3556 calling 'gregorio C:\Users\Tess\AppData\Local\Temp\scribus_temp_render_qH3556-score.gabc' calling 'lualatex --interaction nonstopmode scribus_temp_render_qH3556.tex' Now the scribus_temp_render_qH3556.pdf is actually produced and looks fine except that it has 'gregoriotex.atScoreBeggining' where the initial letter should be. But none of it appears in Scribus, presumably because of the errors elsewhere. I see from the mailing list that my problem might be somehow related to this thread:- https://mail.gna.org/public/gregorio-users/2011-01/msg00054.html <https://mail.gna.org/public/gregorio-users/2011-01/msg00054.html>but I'm afraid it's a bit beyond me, trying to bugfix with my utter lack of TeX ability. (although the misspelling of 'atScoreBeggining' looks suspicious!) Could one of you gurus point me in the right direction for a workaround in step-by-step language? --- Also (with apologies for cramming all this into one message) I have the following questions:- 1. Is it possible to suppress the big initial letter altogether? I often need to create scores with no lyrics (eg for monastic diurnal type hymns where the music and lyrics are printed separately since the lyrics change every day). I've found a workaround by commenting out the \greinitial{} command in the .tex file, but every time I reprocess the .gabc file of course the .tex file is overwritten and the \greinitial{} reinserted! 2. Is there a definitive up to date list of \gre commands anywhere? Maybe the list on the website is exhaustive - I just wanted to check. 3. Is there a way to make the final line of a score justified? At the moment I'm having to do a final (z) but that creates a blank line at the bottom of the score. Many thanks to the devs of this software. Makes a change from scribbling out neumes by hand! best wishes, Sr Clare, Oxford, England.
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