Lilypond is wonderful, and its "body plan" is just right. Thanks. I have two questions.
1. Lilypond has limited support for figured bass in the traditional form of columns of digits indicating intervals relative to the bass note. Today, for both pedagogical and practical reasons, it is common to esplicitly give, besides those numbers, a Roman numeral (sometimes in upper or lower case for, resepctively, major and minor) indicating the chord root, such as 7 6 I V V V4 This kind of figured bass, appearing below the staff, is distinct from the so called "chord notation" such as Fdim F7 Cmin etc. Is there a way in lilypond to notate these Roman numerals in the figured bass? 2. I use the kpathsea method of organizing TeX fonts. Specifically, beside the system texmf tree in /usr/share I use a standard-structure texmf tree for the user, called ~/.texmf, where I store user-defined fonts. When I installed lilypond I couldn't get its fonts to appear until I ran the lilypond.sh script in /etc/profile.d. After that lilypond worked right, but my user fonts had become unaccessible. To get them back, I had to do some searching. I finally changed the lilypond-generated export echo $TEMF {/usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6,{!!/home/tt/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}} to echo $TEXMF {/usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6,{!!/home/tt/.texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}} (note the change /home/tt/texmf --> /home/tt/.texmf). I do not understand this TEXMF story and its stepping over TEXMFCNF. (By the way, when is the script lilypond.sh automatically executed if I leave it in /etc/profile.d?) Do you have any suggestions how to do this right, and can you give the installer a few more words of explanations? I'm afraid many potential users may be turned off by this first difficulty and never come back. Many many thanks. -- Tom Toffoli ---------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Tommaso Toffoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ECE Dept., PHO531 | home: Boston University 617/353-9846 | 617/864-8545 8 Saint Mary's St. fax -6440 | 26 Athens St. Boston, MA 02215 | Cambridge, MA 02138 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user