Dear Sr. Clare, I can't help with the Scribus issues, but can help with your first question.
1. To surpress the opening initial, put the following in your GABC header (before the %%): initial-style: 0; If you put 1 in place of the zero you will get the regular sized initial. Yours, bro. Innocent Smith, o.p. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Clare <cl...@oscfreeland.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > Gregorio-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >
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