Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > I definitely recommend that you keep to the stable 1.4.8 release > for the moment. The 1.5.x releases contain too many bugs to be > useful for some serious typesetting at the moment.
OK, I'll download immediately > You have already received an answer for the compilation problem, > if you still have problems with clusters (I'm not 100% sure > what kind of problem you refer to), please send a new example > that has correct syntax. If the problem is colliding note heads, > Lilypond implements a number of rules of thumb that can handle > the easiest problems, see the test example > input/regression/collisions.ly, but for more complicated cases > you may have to specify the horizontal offset for each voice > using the force-hshift property (see input/test/force-hshift.ly > example file, but correct 'forced-hshift' to 'force-hshift' > otherwise it doesn't work). See also the section on Polyphony > in the reference manual. many thanks for the hint, I'll produce a syntactic correct example, dig into the doc (I do that already, but it take some times to figure out things, so thanks for answering despite manual, it helps me a lot!) > This possibility was removed some months ago to simplify the > frontend of the program. I miss it as much as you do. ok, i understand > It seems the documentation is slightly out of date and the interface > is a bit non-intuitive. Anyway, the following lines of code should > work > > \clef bass > \property Staff.clefOctavation = #-15 > \property Staff.OctavateEight \set #'text = #"15" > \property Staff.centralCPosition = #13 really great, i'll try that immediately thanks a lot thanks to other people who responded too, i'll correct my example, download install 1.4.8 and see how things work david _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user