Well,
I finally post a message here and I am ready to take all
the "didn't you search the archive" and "didn't you read
the documentation" replies. Perhaps I am really stupid.
But: I am frustrated.
[you may skip the whining now and see below for the actual problem]
I am definitely not a newbie, and I do have some experience
with things like Unix/Linux administration and configuration,
even with The Obscure World Of TEXMF And The Fonts Therein.
And, yes, i did browse the archives. But I still won't get my
out-of-the box lilypond and dvips to produce PS and PDF.
Ok, it's just a matter of (mis-)configuration, then? Maybe, but
I'm so tired of wasting my time searching archives, trying
hundreds of promising "solutions" and still getting no results.
Why do the Windows and Mac people always get "standalone installers"
and "all-in-one-packages", while Unix/Linux users have to become
experts to get their software running? This is the lilypond-*user*
list and all the people are discussing kpathsea and mftrace
internals that a decent, ordinary person would call Black Magic.
I was very lucky that I first tried lilypond when -by chance -
the 2.4.1 rpm worked on my SuSE installation without further
modifications (it was SuSE 9.0 if I remember correctly). On the
next version this didn't work, so I tried to build lilypond myself.
Waste of time, frustration. I was so happy when I got SuSE 9.3
and noticed that they finally included a 2.4 version of lilypond,
but it doesn't work properly either (see below). I filed a bug
report, but, of course, the SuSE developers don't care.
Lilypond is the BEST, and I need it back! As a USER (which means:
using it :)
[go on here...]
My problem:
- I have SuSE 9.3, lilypond 2.4.4.
- Lilypond works, dvi and midi output is fine.
- The integrated production of ps and pdf fails. I get documents
with many musical symbols missing and all wrong text fonts.
- invoking dvips (and ps2pdf) manually works, but produces very
bad resolution (esp. on screen).
I see that this is the old problem that is well-known from LaTeX.
If I try the -Ppdf option with dvips (which is of course the relevant
point), I get the following output (and the bad ps) from dvips:
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dvips -Ppdf -u+lilypond -u+ec-mftrace sicongieprens.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.05.30:0032' -> sicongieprens.ps
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 0+7600/8000 --dpi
7600 feta20
mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600/8000;
nonstopmode; input feta20
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
! Enormous number has been reduced.
<*> \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600
/8000; nonstopmode; input feta20
?
! Emergency stop.
<*> \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600
/8000; nonstopmode; input feta20
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: feta20.log: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
mktexpk: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600/8000;
nonstopmode; input feta20' failed to make feta20.7600pk.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
dvips: Font feta20 at 7600 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 0+7600/8000 --dpi
7600 feta16
mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600/8000;
nonstopmode; input feta16
--- snip! [similar blocks several times] ---
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: parmesan20.log: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
mktexpk: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=0+7600/8000;
nonstopmode; input parmesan20' failed to make parmesan20.7600pk.
dvips: Font parmesan20 not found, characters will be left blank.
<tex.pro><alt-rule.pro><music-drawing-routines.ps><texps.pro><special.pro>.
<ecbi8.pfb><ecbx10.pfb><ecti7.pfb><ecrm10.pfb><ecrb10.pfb><ecbx12.pfb>
<eccc10.pfb>[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
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I would be very grateful for any help.
Robert
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