>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I know there are lots of ways to get pdf out of TeX; is anyone here
>> using one with lilypond and latex that doesn't involve ps2pdf?
Thomas> The best tool I know to produce pdf is pdflatex. That's why I modified
Thomas> lilypond-book to use pdflatex. However, I consider this version in alpha
Thomas> or beta state at most. I have sent a patch to the developer list:
Thomas> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/lilypond-devel/2002-February/000442.html
Thomas> If you like, I can send you the file via private mail.
Thanks, I'll check it out later.
Thomas> So far, I'm using it successfully to produce a booklet of songs.
Thomas> With the hyperref package I get a nice clickable table of
Thomas> contents.
That would be a good thing.
Thomas> I haven't seen any floating note heads, but I don't use advanced features
Thomas> of lilypond.
I sometimes do, but not in the case of these particular notes.
>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mats> It sounds as if the ghostscript version on your machine is broken.
Mats> What does version number does 'gs -v' report?
[lconrad@tuba book]$ gs -v
GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-05)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
Mats> The easiest solution for you may be to install another ghostscript
Mats> version, 6.5x works well for me.
The one on Mandrake 8.1 worked for me, too, but this one has problems.
>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> I have experienced very similar problems with Debian's
Erik> ps2pdf package. I found one workaround:
Erik> Before running ps2pdf, run ps2ps on the postscript file, like
Erik> ps2ps music.ps temp.ps
Erik> This produces a new postscript file temp.ps which is not identical to
Erik> music.ps, but which ps2pdf seems to like better: If you now use ps2pdf on
Erik> temp.ps, you will probably avoid those errors.
Thanks, this seems to do the trick. I'm glad to know it's a
ghostscript problem, not introduced by Mandrake.
And then Mats wrote:
Mats> I wouldn't recommend this method in general since the resulting
Mats> files will be significantly larger. The reason is that in the
Mats> output from ps2ps, everything is produced using low-level Postscript
Mats> drawing commands. Instead of typesetting a font symbol by specifying
Mats> the font name and the character code, the postscript code draws the
Mats> symbol using lines, spline curves and so on.
OK, I will install a ghostscript fix as soon as I find one, but I
don't think I'm expert enough to go back to an older version of
ghostscript given all the dependencies.
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