I tried your example. After failing to download some package undoubtedly related to using LaTeX rather than plain TeX, it still compiled OK and looks fine in GSview. So I guess I can't help any more, except to suggest trying to track down whether you have the font properly installed that makes the numbers. As a test maybe you could switch them to a different font that you're sure is installed? Sorry I can't be any more help.
Afterthought: how did you make the pdf? I've heard that there are some direct dvi-to-pdf converters (pdftex?) that do not handle postscript specials correctly. Can you explicitly make a postscript file, then convert it to pdf? Can't tell you how to do that on a Mac; on a pc it's just dvips and then gsview. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick > Schmidt > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:04 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Problem with tabdefs > > > The black boxes also appear in the pdf and stay there when > printed out. The tabxampl.tex looks the way it is supposed to > look (pdf and printed). I have included a little example. > > Patrick Schmidt > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]> > > Gesendet: 23.06.07 21:37:42 > > An: "Werner Icking Music Archive" <[email protected]> > > Betreff: Re: [TeX-Music] Problem with tabdefs > > > > > > I've never used this package before. But when I look in tabdefs.tex, the > > first thing I see is the following: > > > > % Most symbols will look ugly on your dvi-viewer, because I put in > > % some postscript code to put a white box behind them. The postscript > > % file will look a lot better. > > > > My tests using tabxampl.tex bear this out. Looks bad (i.e. > black boxes) in > > dvi wiewer, but looks fine in a postscript viewer. Is that your problem? > > Have you looked at a postscript file or tried to print it out? > > > > --Don Simons > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Patrick > > > Schmidt > > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:08 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [TeX-Music] Problem with tabdefs > > > > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > 1) I've been trying to typeset guitar tablature with tabdefs for > > > quite a while. Everything works well except the fact that the > > > figures are substituted by little black squares. What can I do to > > > get rid of these squares? I'm working on a Mac (OSX) with > > > TeX-Live, MusiXTex T. 113. > > > > > > 2) Is it possible to achieve guitar tablature in musixtex by > > > changing the number of lines in staffs and using figures instead > > > of normal note heads? This would make it possible to add stems > > > and beams to tablature. > > > > > > Thanks for help! > > > > > > PLS > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! > > > http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TeX-music mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TeX-music mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > In 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! > Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114 > > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
