Hi Andrew,
thank you for your quick answer! I tried countless writings of the fonts, but
none did work.
The solution was that fontconfig did’t search in the User-Fonts I stored in
/Users/[Name]/Library/Fonts. I added the search part and everything worked
fine. Seems to me that the relative
On 2016-04-11 13:37, Daniel Fütterer wrote:
Hello,
I want to use alternative fonts for my documents, but I have problems
including them. I’m using 2.18.2 with the patch for alternative music
fonts (which all work fine). [...]
I tried some different fonts, including Charter (worked) and
Hi Daniel,
it just so happens I also use Linux Biolinum and Linux Libertine with lilypond.
The names need to be right, as you said.
To see all fonts you can use:
$ lilypond -dshow-available-fonts
In your case:
#:roman "Linux Libertine O"
#:sans "Linux Biolinum O"
Exactly what I use. Quite
Hello,
I want to use alternative fonts for my documents, but I have problems including
them. I’m using 2.18.2 with the patch for alternative music fonts (which all
work fine).
I tried the following snippets within the \paper-variable:
#(define fonts
(set-global-fonts
#:music
I'm making a score including a number of pieces in \bookparts. If I add
a \layout block to a bookpart, that bookpart ignores my font definitions
and uses the defaults instead.
Is it possible to change sizes etc for each bookpart while still
recognising the new fonts?
--
Hilary
- Original Message -
From: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk
To: LilyPond Users lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 11:11 AM
Subject: Font problems in \bookparts
I'm making a score including a number of pieces in \bookparts. If I add
a \layout block to a bookpart
Ah, after a further search I found that it's a known issue:
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1129
with a workaround by Neil Puttock:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond@gnu.org/msg16599.html
Though this function appears to preserve the fonts requested but not the
staff
Hello,
I kicked this thread off last week sometime:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg00762.html
TL/DR summary: ligatures were not being shown for lilypond-generated output.
further investigation led me to:
- Original Message -
From: Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at
To: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:20 AM
Subject: 64-bit font problems in GUB
Hello,
I kicked this thread off last week sometime:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote:
- Original Message - From: Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at
...SNIP SNAP...
This leads me to conclude that there seems to be a problem with the
64-bit version of the font libraries in the build system for the
release
Python and midi2ly seem OK, but now lilypond.exe doesn't seem to do
anything useful. I tried:
lilypond -h
lilypond somefile.ly
both from a Windows command prompt and from within Cygwin and
there are no printouts or output files whatsoever. It doesn't make any
difference if I specify a full path
Mats Bengtsson writes:
Thanks for your efforts! However, is it really that hard to make a simple
test case yourself? There are still a number of problems to solve:
Please have a look at the new and bug-free 2.6.4-4! Python and argv0
relocation should both work now (at least, they work for me
Thanks for your efforts! However, is it really that hard to make a simple
test case yourself? There are still a number of problems to solve:
When you run from the Windows (XP) command window:
1. Python is still not setup correctly. For example, you get:
midi2ly
Traceback (most recent call
Mats Bengtsson writes:
Thanks for your efforts! However, is it really that hard to make a simple
test case yourself?
Yes, it is. To me, the whole Windows platform is some sort of ugly
black voodoo, as you can see from the snippets I sent, it works for
me. Just as the previous release worked
Mats Bengtsson writes:
On the other hand, I just tried John Mandereau's hints:
I have prepared 2.6.4-3 packages with python compiled for console and
incorporating John's hints (apart from downloading python manually :-).
For PATH, PYTHONPATH and PATHEXT to be set automagically, you may have
to
Mats Bengtsson writes:
GNU LilyPond 2.6.4
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-2, message: can't open the module
I've prepared 2.6.4-2, would you like to give that a test? It took me
longer than I'd hoped, but as a bonus you should be able to do
I just tried a clean installation of the new package and lilypond itself
works
like a charm. However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would
expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window
to start the interpreter, but it seems that the command doesn't do
However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would
expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window
to start the interpreter, but it seems that the command doesn't do
anything at all.
That's not much. You did set PYTHONPATH? Try using -v to see what
Mats Bengtsson writes:
I just tried a clean installation of the new package and lilypond
itself works like a charm.
Thanks.
However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would
expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window
to start the interpreter, but
Mats Bengtsson writes:
Well, one reason is that you then would have to set the value of
the libdir variable at the top of midi2ly.py in the installation program,
since you don't know before then what installation directory was actually
used. Moving the dll:s and .py include files into bin\
No,
I do have a problem with fonts with Lilypond 2.6.4.
I am using Lilypond 2.6.4 for Cygwin, because I want to integrate it
with TeX and the best way to do this seemed to be cygwin.
Lilypond itself runs fine, but when I use lilypond-book (with the
--psfonts option) it failes to extract
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:
I didn't notice any problems!
Ok. I tested my newly released Cygwin 2.6.4 and that works fine too.
Waitaminute. Did you install the -upgrade exe? If so, could you
uininstall and test the full version (the support libraries were
rebuilt, that may have introduced a
Mats Bengtsson writes:
I didn't notice any problems!
Ok. I tested my newly released Cygwin 2.6.4 and that works fine too.
Maybe it's just a coincidence. Seems like we need people to ask to
run LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 again (without typo's).
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU
I did use the full installation, not only the upgrade, but I didn't remove
the previous installation first.
Trying Uninstall + Install of mingw LilyPond 2.6.4 is unfortunately much
less successful. Double clicking on a .ly file or dragdrop onto the
LilyPond
icon doesn't produce anything. When I
I just realized that I could run lilypond from the Cygwin command
line if I added the path to the mingw version to PATH. Then I could
also see the error message when running 2.6.4 (installed without a
previous install of 2.6.3). It's:
lilypond testfile.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.6.4
ERROR: In procedure
Mats Bengtsson writes:
I just realized that I could run lilypond from the Cygwin command
line if I added the path to the mingw version to PATH. Then I could
also see the error message when running 2.6.4 (installed without a
previous install of 2.6.3). It's:
lilypond testfile.ly
GNU
Anyone tried 2.6.4 and got good results with text fonts on Windows?
Jan.
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I didn't notice any problems!
/Mats
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Anyone tried 2.6.4 and got good results with text fonts on Windows?
Jan.
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=
Mats Bengtsson
Signal Processing
Signals, Sensors and Systems
Royal
I was trying out the new windows installer, compiling a song by an
icelandic composer.
It seems that icelandic characters do not work in this version (replaced
with spaces) even with the source as a utf8 doc, and trying to compile
the sakura-sakura.ly and xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly files from
Update: Seems I was too trigger happy before, I figured out I was not
using utf8, but an 8bit encoding, the Icelandic is fixed :D
Thanks for a great program btw :D
SS
Stefán Sigurjónsson wrote:
I was trying out the new windows installer, compiling a song by an
icelandic composer.
It seems
Stefán Sigurjónsson wrote:
the sakura-sakura.ly and xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly files from the
C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\share\doc\lilypond-2.5.29-2\input folder
fails completely ('warning: don't know how to embed
MS-Gothic=C:/WINDOWS/fonts/msgothic.ttc') .
Are there some additional font
]
Cc : lilypond-user@gnu.org
Date : Thu, 12 May 2005 19:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject : Re: Text font problems with 2.4.5
I think that has something to do with the config file that the sid version
of ec-fonts-mftraced has. Try downgrading to the version that is in sarge
(which, I believe
-- Initial Header ---
From : D Josiah Boothby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To : Antonio PALAMA' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc : lilypond-user@gnu.org
Date : Thu, 12 May 2005 19:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject : Re: Text font problems with 2.4.5
I think that has something to do
The problem is solved: I downloaded ec-fonts-mftraced_1.0.12-1_all.deb
from www.lilypond.org/download/fonts, installed it and the good fonts
are back.
Thanks for your help,
Antonio
D Josiah Boothby wrote:
I think that has something to do with the config file that the sid
version of
After upgrading from 2.2.x to 2.4.5 on my Debian sid system, all the
text (title, composer, rehearsal marks, markups etc.) is typeset using a
strange font which resmbles Courier. I tried to reinstall
ec-fonts-mftraced 1.0.10a-1 but the problem is still there.
Do people have any idea about how
Run lilypond --verbose ... to get more information on what happens,
especially when lilypond calls dvips. Then, search the mailing
list archives. I guess most possible problems have been discussed
several times here.
/Mats
=
Mats Bengtsson
I think that has something to do with the config file that the sid version
of ec-fonts-mftraced has. Try downgrading to the version that is in sarge
(which, I believe is the same version but with the right config file).
Josiah
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Antonio PALAMA' wrote:
After upgrading from
Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mats Did you compile it yourself or install from an RPM? Are the
Mats symbols missing both in DVI, PS, PDF and printed output?
I compiled it myself, since it needs to be installed in a non-standard place.
Mats Do the PDF files from the on-line
Here's some more data:
There appears to be an incompatibility in the meaning of the
envirnoment variable LILYPONDPREFIX between lilypond-profile.sh and
lilypond. I have lilypond installed in the directory
/usr/local/coop/share/lilypond. In order to get lilypond to work from
the command line, I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here's some more data:
There appears to be an incompatibility in the meaning of the
envirnoment variable LILYPONDPREFIX between lilypond-profile.sh and
lilypond. I have lilypond installed in the directory
/usr/local/coop/share/lilypond. In order to get lilypond
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
(LILYPONDPREFIX is for gurus like me, who run LilyPond from the
compile directory)
Nah, real don't even use LILYPONDPREFIX for that, just set a clever
--prefix ;-)
Jan.
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Did you compile it yourself or install from an RPM?
Are the symbols missing both in DVI, PS, PDF and printed output?
Do the PDF files from the on-line examples at the documentation
page for your LilyPond version work on your computer?
If it's only a problem in the PS and PDF files, but the DVI
I've installed LP 2.2.6 on RH 9. Things work fairly well, except for
the following which I would guess is some sort of font problem:
No brace is printed to the left of a piano staff (even from some of
the precanned examples). No dynamic markings, like p, pp, etc. are
printed. Any suggestions
I guess that the PDF file you get doesn't look too good, at least not
on screen, since it will contain bitmap fonts instead of vector fonts.
What LilyPond does internally, is to call dvips with the following
flags:
dvips -Ppdf -u+lilypond -u+ec-mftrace filename.dvi
What happens when you try this
folks,
I've just downloaded Lilypond 2.3.24 (Debian Sid) from Pedro's
repository. I had a few font problems, which I fixed by upgrading to
the latest ec-fonts-mftraced, also from Pedro's site.
Now, however, when I use a global staff size less than 20 points I get
greater-than signs and other math
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for your reply. I've just had a closer look at a few things, and
I found a log file named missfont.log in my project directory, which
contains the line
mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm1000
Does this give any clues as
Thanks for your reply,
I have no problem with missfonts (anyway kpsewhich ecrm10.pfa returns
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm10.pfa)
Xdvi runs fine with dvi generated by lily ; but gv displays strange symbols for
graces notes and fermata on bar.
Anyway, I dug a little
Hi folks,
I've just downloaded Lilypond 2.3.24 (Debian Sid) from Pedro's
repository. I had a few font problems, which I fixed by upgrading to the
latest ec-fonts-mftraced, also from Pedro's site.
Now, however, when I use a global staff size less than 20 points I get
greater-than signs
just downloaded Lilypond 2.3.24 (Debian Sid) from Pedro's
repository. I had a few font problems, which I fixed by upgrading to the
latest ec-fonts-mftraced, also from Pedro's site.
Now, however, when I use a global staff size less than 20 points I get
greater-than signs and other math symbols
Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
Hi folks,
I've just downloaded Lilypond 2.3.24 (Debian Sid) from Pedro's
repository. I had a few font problems, which I fixed by upgrading to
the latest ec-fonts-mftraced, also from Pedro's site.
Now, however, when I use a global staff size less than 20 points I get
Please always specify a subject on your emails. In these
days when there are lot of spam and virus emails, it was
just about to delete your email withour reading it.
Also, always tell what operating system you use (and what
distribution if it is a Linux systems) and how you installed
LilyPond
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 11:47 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
Please always specify a subject on your emails. In these
days when there are lot of spam and virus emails, it was
just about to delete your email withour reading it.
Just answered, didn't care for the not specified subject, Sorry :-(
Jan Kohnert wrote:
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 11:47 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
Please always specify a subject on your emails. In these
days when there are lot of spam and virus emails, it was
just about to delete your email withour reading it.
Just answered, didn't care for the not specified
Also, there a bug in the latest stable versions 1.6.x. If you
try to use the Type1 (vectorized) fonts instead of the default
Type3 (bitmapped) fonts, the wrong fonts will be shown in the
Postscript or PDF. I think that's what happened to you.
The simple solution, if you just want a PS file to view
Need help to my problem...
I installed Lilypond 1.6.5-1 from rpm on RedHat Linux 8.0, and it works
well.
The other day, I found the Lilypond 1.6.6-1 rpm from
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/soundapps.html#lilypond
, so I rpm -Uvh, but it goes differently; the font is not
That's because the fonts have changed.
You must clean the fonts (they are build when LaTeX need them and then
cached ; you must clean the cache...)
See /buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh in lilypond src directory...
Alex.
neuro wrote:
Need help to my problem...
I installed Lilypond 1.6.5-1
Russell Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also tried 'ly2dvi -p' to output pdf. This appears to fix the problem
as you suggested.
Good.
The only much more minor (cosmetic) complaint is that
the bracket for the piano staff appears to be the wrong size.
Strange.
I've attached the output
/home/russell/docs/music/examples/feta-nummer10.600pk
/var/lib/texmf/pk/bjtzzs/feta-nummer8.720pk
/var/lib/texmf/pk/cx/feta-nummer8.300pk
You have pk files for three different resolutions on your disk. You
state that you're running Red Hat 7.3, but this is (hopefully) not a
I've attached the output of 'locate feta'.
I also tried 'ly2dvi -p' to output pdf. This appears to fix the problem
as you suggested. The only much more minor (cosmetic) complaint is that
the bracket for the piano staff appears to be the wrong size.
I think I can live with that. :-)
Thanks for
Mats,
Removing the feta* files in my local directory made the dvips and ly2dvi
generated files look the same. Unfortunately it didn't fix the squashed
font problem.
Sorry about the 16 versus 20 font size oversight. I'm usnig denemo to
enter the music which defaults to 16 so I have to change it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope you saw the other postings on this problem which I think answer
your question.
Any ideas?
Still the only thing I can think of is some kind of resolution
mismatch. (are you sure you removed everything, i.e. what does locate
feta say?) Second, if you use ly2dvi
, have you tried to print the PS file generated by
dvips. Some month ago, one guy on the list experienced font
problems when viewing the PS file in gv/ghostview/... but
they printed nicely on paper and when he sent an example file,
it looked completely normal here.
/Mats
dvipslist:
kdebug:search(feta-nummer8.vf) =
kdebug:search(feta-nummer8.720pk) = ./feta-nummer8.720pk
kdebug:search(feta16.vf) =
kdebug:search(feta16.720pk) = ./feta16.720pk
kdebug:search(feta-braces4.vf) =
kdebug:search(feta-braces4.720pk) = ./feta-braces4.720pk
Simply remove the feta*
Jan,
I'm running Redhat 7.3 with standard kernel and appropriate updates. I
first saw the problem on Redhat 7.1 or 7.2.
mf --version
Metafont (Web2C 7.3.1) 2.7182
kpathsea version 3.3.1
rpm -q tetex
tetex-1.0.7-47
rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.5-34
Here's the responses to the kpsewhich you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I have this font problem which existed in 1.4.x and appears to persist
in the 1.6.5 redhat rpm. I have run the buildscripts/clean-font.sh and
it appears to not make any difference.
Can anyone suggest any further efforts to eliminate the problem?
I've
Hi,
I have this font problem which existed in 1.4.x and appears to persist
in the 1.6.5 redhat rpm. I have run the buildscripts/clean-font.sh and
it appears to not make any difference.
Can anyone suggest any further efforts to eliminate the problem?
I've attached a png illustrating the problem
Brishen Viaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes you were both right, it was old fonts causing the problem. I had run
the 'clean-fonts' script a few times, and had tried to go through manually
and get rid of some of the fonts but I had obviousliy missed some. Now
that I've removed them Im
Hi, hopefully this will be quite simple and simply something that I've
overlooked.
I have just installed version 1.6.4 on my system (slackware 8.0) over top of
the my older 1.4.9 version.
I am now have trouble with the fonts. The note heads are very oddly shaped,
and the tails are all 1/64
Hi,
I installed lilypond on my debian system via apt. The postscript file that
is generated can not find the font feta. Doesn't that come with lilypond?
Or did I do something else wrong?
When I generate tex or dvi, the displayed score is very different from
what I entered in rosegarden. Rest
Hi,
I installed lilypond on my debian system via apt. The postscript file that
is generated can not find the font feta. Doesn't that come with lilypond?
Or did I do something else wrong?
When I generate tex or dvi, the displayed score is very different from
what I entered in
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