Hi Kieren, Finally I got it working, albeit "Non senza fatiga" (like when you managed to play Frescobaldi's Toccata IX, at least according to Frescobaldi himself).
Since I do not yet know the right way to install things downloaded from github.com/openlilylib, I merely copied the folder "snippets-master" to a LilyPond folder in my Dropbox and used \include "full_path_to_shapeII.ily" in the ME I posted. I then found that I had to include in the same way another file, "lilypond-version-predicates.ily", which, though it is in "Resources/share/lilypond/current/_internal/utilities" of the LilyPond.app, nevertheless could not be found. No idea why not. Anyway, in the end it worked and the result is what I hoped it would be. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Robert On 6 Oct 2016, at 13:53 , Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > 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 framework >> on my path. > > Let us know how it goes! > Kieren. > ________________________________ > > Kieren MacMillan, composer > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info > ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info >
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