Trent Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Firstly the required out the way: > > Platform: Windows XP > Lilypond Version: 2.7.8 > > ____ > > I have been using the new version(s) of Lilypond for a while and I find the > us of PDF file a little annoying especially when fine tuning a score. You > have to remember to close out of the current document before you run lilypond > as the current scheme is to delete the old pdf and make the new one. So if > you fail to close the score your viewing in the PDF viewer before you compile > you receive an error message which means going through the sequence again > remembering this time to close the document in the pdf viewer. > > While this is only a minor quible it becomes more noticeable when editing a > large score i.e. across many pages. To make a simple adjustment say the > padding of slur or dynamic this becomes frustrating as you need to close down > the pdf file, make the adjustment and then manually load newly generated pdf > back into the pdf viewer and then try and find the page and staff to where > you made the adjustment. This can be very annoying and slow down the work > rate especially when you are making guesses to padding / layout / making > lyric corrections etc. > > I know in the older versions of lilypond a dvi viewer could be used as a fast > an easy way to make changes. Since the newer versions only produce a .ps file > and .pdf file this it out of the question. I tried using 'gsview' with the > .ps file but gsview complains that there too many errors and won't display > the music. I use gsview all the time especially when entering music with > PMX/Musixtex and can have the .ps loaded all the time and when I update the > score it refreshes the screen with the changes made while retaining the same > view of the same page I was working on. This makes fine tuning scores much > simplier and time efficient. > You can still generate dvi output by using the tex backend. I believe the command is lilypond --backend=tex --dvi but check the manual.
> Is there a way to use the .ps file with gsview I know I won't be able to use > point and click but since I usually number all the bars in a score I don't > see this as problem and if things get a little tricky I can always go back to > the pdf score to find the offending line. I don't use point and click as it > is but simply use the pointer to give me the line number to go back to file > to find. > I don't use Windows so I can't tell why you're having problems with the ps output, but I use gv 3.6.1 which works fine with both the ps and pdf output of LilyPond. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
