Hi Robert, >> Did you download and install the openlilylib framework on your path? > No, I didn't. Frankly, I had no idea that something like that would be > necessary.
\shapeII currently requires it (though I hope one day, \shapeII or similar is built in to the main distribution of Lilypond). > There was no separate log-file but I copied he text from the console (I use > TeXShop as the LilyPond editor) and pasted it in the Post Script of this > mail. It speaks of a fatal error but nevertheless generates a nice pdf (with > no improvement of the tie-distances of course). But I should have noticed the > error warnings like " error: unknown escaped string: `\shapeII' " etc. Yes — that’s the key. And the reason for the empty measure. > Anyway, I will follow your advice and download and install the openlilylib > framework on my path. Let us know how it goes! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user