Okay, it's built ... gasp ... pant ... pant ... :-) Thanx for all the help.
Now I cd'd to the ./input dir and did lilypond twinkle.ly and it built me a midi and a tex file. Now I'm trying to see this. Excuse that I'm so ignorant about TeX and am just looking for INSTANT GRATIFICATION here to believe the struggle is now merely a case of RTFM ... I'm trying to build a .pdf of twinkle.tex and it can't find the fonts. I have $TETEXDIR set correctly, but here's what happens: [23:40:35 jax@mitra:/usr/local/src/various/lilypond-stuff/lilypond-1.5.25/input]$ texi2pdf -I /usr/local/share/lilypond/tex twinkle.tex This is makeindex, version 2.13 [07-Mar-1997] (using kpathsea). Scanning input file ./twinkle.ly...done (0 entries accepted, 123 rejected). Nothing written in ./twinkle.ind. Transcript written in ./twinkle.ilg. This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (/usr/local/src/various/lilypond-stuff/lilypond-1.5.25/input/twinkle.tex LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1 Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex/lilyponddefs.tex (/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex/feta20.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm feta16 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input feta16 This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) kpathsea: Running mktexmf feta16 ! I can't find file `feta16'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input feta16 Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input feta16 Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input feta16' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \fetasixteen=feta16 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \def l.15 \def \fetafont{\fetasixteen} ? -- Jack J. Woehr # The man who carries a cat by the tail Senior Consultant # learns something that can be learned Purematrix, Inc. # in no other way. www.purematrix.com # - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user