If you are on Windows, try to rerun setup.exe and add the tetex-base package from the Publishing section. Since this package is so large, there's a tetex-tiny package that contains a minimal TeX installation which is installed by default when you install lilypond. Unfortunately, too many files have been left out (which has been bug reported to cygwin).
Ray Brohinsky wrote:
I've got a bit of a question, which I'm going to ask at the risk of looking very stupid. (I feel that way, so it isn't much of a risk anyway.)
I have a piece which I wrote, an arrangement of four Christmas carols. I wrote it using Music Time Deluxe, and when I had it worked pretty well out started setting it using lilypond 1.6.1. I did a few small tweaks in it, but for the most part, it's pretty straight lilypond. The results are mostly fine.
I've upgraded to 1.8.1, and I've been going through the old stuff (nearly half of the odhecaton project, a few arrangements, and two carol arrangements. Only one is for voices, though) and updating the output. The easy production of .pdf files is very attractive, btw. I wonder if I've missed a control for the dpi of the output of .pdf's? or if that's been added in 2.0?
Anyway, I try to keep backups, and it was good that I did this time. Please, if you have the time to, look at http://tinkl.dhs.org/~raybro/LilyUpg.html and look at the code and .ps and .pdf files there.
First off, I simply ran 1.8.1 of ly2dvi with -p, and looked at the .ps result. I was horrified: the font had changed from proportional to typewriter. While the font change itself was kind of ugly, I rely on the broader strokes of the proportional fonts to ensure that all my singers can read the words, regardless of their age. (OK, I'm getting into that category myself: one of the reasons I love lilypond is because she makes scores with thick enough stave lines that they don't disappear at 4' distance, unlike finale and the others who seem to be wedded to the silly idea that 1pixel is a good line thickness.) Also, the circle is missing around the \copyright symbol (although the c is still there!)
Then, I ran convert-ly to upgrade from 1.6.1 to 1.8.1. I had not put a \version command in the original code, because I'd had some real problems with the \version command back in 1.2 or 1.4. So I invoked convert-ly with --from and --to, with the version numbers, and the output was identical to the input. Then I added the \version command seen in the code on the web page, and the output differed from the input by exactly one byte less. Which byte was removed, I haven't determined yet, because I can't find it. (or the lack of it). I ran ly2dvi -p on the result, and compared both .ps and .pdf files to the -old versions. Without any noticeable change in code, there is definitely a change to the \copyright symbol's handling (which should be happening within LaTeX or TeX!) and the font has changed.
Is this something I missed in the lists of things changed between stable release 1.6 and 1.8? Am I the only one who objects to it (or less likely, who has noticed it?) And most important, did I miss the simple cure that Han-Wen and Jan usually provide for backwards compatibility and adaptibility?
a befuddled raybro
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