a while back, i had entered several instrument parts for songs that were passed out to students in the band class i was in. the origionals were not in good shape and the copies we had were even worse. now that i just got lily up today, i decided to try transfering them into lily to see how it would come out. the ETF files failed and it said it crashed lily, but i remember reading that blank measures cause errors and i think i still had a few of them, if not other problems that arent handled right. i tried importing midi files of it, and found that both fidi files i formed (instruments receiving their own tracks or not) had made lily generate a sheet with 1 staff. i didnt seem to notice any options about controlling that further through the midi converter of lily. when it did that, i noticed that the pdf had many notes clustered in chords. with so many notes and how tight it fit things in, there were occurences of where a stem of one note connected to a sharp of another note and other similar clashes. also i noticed that in the 'instruments on their own track' import that things were spaced a but better, but i saw beams that would pass the edge of the stem that they were connected to. those sightings were within the pdf. my system apparently is not configured to open the dvi files and complains about missing fonts if opened in the kde viewer for dvi files. is it suggested to work with the dvi, ps, or pdf for output? im using the 1.8 version of lily. my guesses for what may have happened with the clashes was that the midi file converted lead to multiple instruments being printed on the same staff, but as if they were each printer to their own staff on a seperate run. perhapse there were two overlapping staves? the beaming appears to be a minor detail, but by what u guys wrote on your webpage, its the minor details that you like to work so hard to find and perfect. i can send the lily, pdf, or other files if it is of help, but didnt want to clutter this email with attachments. also i do not know if this email goes straight to the publically accessible archives with attachments and would probably need to check if i can just start making my copies of the music publically available. if it comes to that, ill try to analyze the music enough to generate samples that create the same troubles i noticed in my files. let me know what would be preferred if i can be of further help on this. thanks again for the great product, Ed Sutton
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