lilypond on slack 9 (working after much trouble)
to make it work, ive had to put forth a lil more effort than the installation page mentions...: installed: gcc 2.95-3 guile-core-20030716 mftrace-1.0.19.tar.gz pfaedit full-030818 lilypond-1.8.0.tar.gz type1-1.8.0.tar.gz autotrace-0.30.tar.gz (tried 0.31.1, which lead to more problems so i decided to try the suggested 0.30 before starting another sublevel problem tracking...) t1utils-1.28.tar.gz maybe others too, but i cant remember for now. i never (permanentely) added /usr/share/texmf/bin/ to my path, which was required for kpsewhich and kpsexpand , if not more. i just used an export command with my current path, listed by env, and repeated the step whenever i noticed a kps program listed as command not found. if i can provide more useful information, let me know. i made a slackware package for lilypond, but it still preceeded the commands of sh buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh , make pfa-fonts , make MAKE_PFA_FILES=1 install , and texhash . i cant remember if i performed the steps after that. i am not sure what 'make MAKE_PFA_FILES=1 install' does different from a 'make install' to know how to add its results to a package either. at least at this point i do have lilypond working (after over a day of working with it). are there plans to move away from flex due to gcc 3.x incompatibilities? in the meantime, thanks again for what looks like it should be a good and fun program (now that i got past the install). now ive got a lil learning ahead of me, but through a lil exploring of your site it looks that wont even be very hard. ive got a bit of a programming history behind me (although not career orientated), but unfortunately its been a while since ive done much at all and i havent really done any programming since ive ben on linux. if there is any further help that i can offer, let me know. in the meantime, i will try to present a few outputs to some people i know for feedback, and if they ever see details to criticize, ill be sure to forward it along. thanks again, Ed Sutton ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
clashes
a while back, i had entered several instrument parts for songs that were passed out to students in the band class i was in. the origionals were not in good shape and the copies we had were even worse. now that i just got lily up today, i decided to try transfering them into lily to see how it would come out. the ETF files failed and it said it crashed lily, but i remember reading that blank measures cause errors and i think i still had a few of them, if not other problems that arent handled right. i tried importing midi files of it, and found that both fidi files i formed (instruments receiving their own tracks or not) had made lily generate a sheet with 1 staff. i didnt seem to notice any options about controlling that further through the midi converter of lily. when it did that, i noticed that the pdf had many notes clustered in chords. with so many notes and how tight it fit things in, there were occurences of where a stem of one note connected to a sharp of another note and other similar clashes. also i noticed that in the 'instruments on their own track' import that things were spaced a but better, but i saw beams that would pass the edge of the stem that they were connected to. those sightings were within the pdf. my system apparently is not configured to open the dvi files and complains about missing fonts if opened in the kde viewer for dvi files. is it suggested to work with the dvi, ps, or pdf for output? im using the 1.8 version of lily. my guesses for what may have happened with the clashes was that the midi file converted lead to multiple instruments being printed on the same staff, but as if they were each printer to their own staff on a seperate run. perhapse there were two overlapping staves? the beaming appears to be a minor detail, but by what u guys wrote on your webpage, its the minor details that you like to work so hard to find and perfect. i can send the lily, pdf, or other files if it is of help, but didnt want to clutter this email with attachments. also i do not know if this email goes straight to the publically accessible archives with attachments and would probably need to check if i can just start making my copies of the music publically available. if it comes to that, ill try to analyze the music enough to generate samples that create the same troubles i noticed in my files. let me know what would be preferred if i can be of further help on this. thanks again for the great product, Ed Sutton ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
