Okay, I´ll try to play around with different versions. In the current case that´s not such a problem for me, because there are some chants I have to produce NOW and they have to look good. After that I probably won´t use gregorian chant that soon.
Dominic 2008/8/12 Kurt Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008/08/11 11:13 AM, "Dominic Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks Kurt! I already solved some problems, for example by using >> \finalis, \divisioMinima and so on. >> The main remaining problem is the bad positioning of notes and lyrics >> when two or more noteheads are nearly in one place. After these places >> is too much space until the next notehead is printed. >> >> Now I updated from 2.11.44 to 2.11.55 hoping that it helps. But the output of >> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation.ht >> ml >> looks other than online. Online there are not those ugly spaces, but >> on my system there are. [It´s Windows XP Pro, LilyPond version >> 2.11.55] >> (see attachment for this). >> >> Any ideas? > > It appears to have happened sometime between versions 2.11.51 (when the > online output was generated) and 2.11.55 (the most current development > version). I'm getting similar results on Mac OS X (10.4), using the same > dev version. > > This cycle of progress-regress is tiresome but to be expected since we're > working with a development version of the program. Ancient notation -- and > Gregorian-type chant in particular -- has been neglected for quite some > time, so even the modest advances that I've seen since version 2.8 (or so) > are refreshing. > > You may also consider downgrading to the current stable version, 2.10.33. I > have attached an example of that version's output. (Assuming that you *can* > downgrade: it works fine on my Macintosh, but I can't test on WinXP. The > only computer available to me that runs Windows XP is my work computer, and > my employer (the State of California) penalizes inappropriate personal use > of State property.) > > I'm sorry that I can't offer better help -- but I'm kind of stuck in the > same situation as you, hoping that LilyPond's output doesn't regress too > much. Maybe some of the gurus on this list (who have more experience with > spacing issues) can help us out ...? > > Kurtis > > PS: There's always Grégoire (http://gregoire.tele.free.fr/) -- but it's even > older than LilyPond (even though it was purpose-built for producing > Gregorian chant). It doesn't have a layout engine; you integrate the > results into your favorite word processor / DTP program. > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
