Dear Jan, Mats, and the rest of the lilypond team,
Both of your pieces of advice helped. I was able to successfully get flat symbol how I wanted it to look in the instrument header line with this code:
\header{
title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
instrument = \markup{ Saxophone in B \smaller \smaller \smaller \flat }
}I had to include three `\smaller' commands, else the symbol was printed awkwardly large. Which is fine for me now that I know how. But you may wish to consider some more intuitive way of implementing this.
Best regards, Toby
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Toby Dylan Hocking writes:
I recently have started using Lilypond to typeset music. Most
functions seem to be straightforward and intuitive. Thanks for this
great piece of free software.
Thanks!
However, I have one problem, which I suspect is a bug.
I use the following segment in my input file:
\header{
title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
instrument = "Saxophone in E\flat"
}
You may try:
\header{ title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R." composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking" instrument = \markup { "Saxophone in E" \flat } }
{ c }
It seems that this must be a bug. If not, tell me what I am doing
wrong
I'm not sure, this may be a documentation or compatibility bug; the \flat macro must be explicitely defined by including feta16.tex to be used in a TeX string.
Jan.
Mats Bengtsson wrote:
As is described at the bottom of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles the title fields can either be specified as ordinary text strings or using \markup{...}. Take a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html#Text-markup and http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands to learn how to produce the desired instrument name.
/Mats
Quoting Toby Dylan Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
To whom it may concern,
I recently have started using Lilypond to typeset music. Most functions seem to be straightforward and intuitive. Thanks for this great piece of free software. However, I have one problem, which I suspect is a bug.
I use the following segment in my input file:
\header{ title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R." composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking" instrument = "Saxophone in E\flat" }
I get the following messages at runtime:
GNU LilyPond 2.4.5 Processing `surfinussr-eflat.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... [8][16][24][25] Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][25] Layout output to `surfinussr-eflat.tex'... Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.dvi'... Error invoking `latex \\nonstopmode \\input surfinussr-eflat.tex > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256 Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.ps'... Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.pdf'...
There are two symptoms of the problem:
1. The "Error invoking..." runtime message
2. The output .pdf file is produced off center (see attached pdf)
I have figured out the problem is invoking `\flat' in the instrument line, because the problem goes away if I change it to `-flat'.
I am running Lilypond 2.4.5 on SunOS 5.8.
It seems that this must be a bug. If not, tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can typeset the flat symbol in the instrument header line.
-- Sincerely, Toby Dylan Hocking http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/
-- Sincerely, Toby Dylan Hocking http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/
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