Assembled Wisdom! I used lilypond several years ago, but had a lot of trouble upgrading, because then one had to build from scratch and there were always guile imcompatibilities, etc. So I did nothing with computer music typesetting for quite a while.
I recently did a reinstall of a very ancient Linux system and am now running Debian Sarge; and I reinstalled Lilypond from the CDs I bought. So I now have Lilypond 2.2.6. Which I guess is ancient, but I still was able to set a transcription of some Bach for string quartet. So much for preface. I have three questions: 1. If I want to upgrade to a Lilypond 2.6.x, will that mean I have to get a new guile, and possibly other libs? 2. I have been poking about in the lilypond fonts; I have displayed most of the feta* fonts. But I can't find the more fundamental fonts, with note shapes, stems and flags; are they in the TeX hierarcy somewhere? [ Reason for asking: I have the occasion to make a couple of two-bar corrections to some cello parts, and I want the staff lines and the bar lines to be _exact_ so that I can glue in the replacements. I thought I would try making a TeX file that would do that; just as an exercise<g] 3. Mats Bengtsson wrote in a recent E-mail: "Note that version 2.6 and later don't know anything about TeX or LaTeX." I don't know what he meant by that; doesn't even today's Lilypond use TeX for its engraving? isn't the last stage of the "lilypond -P" command still "running dvips . . ."? TIA for clarification/assistance. Alan McConnell -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Impeachment proceedings should be started immediately. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
