inconsistent spacing between piano staves

2006-05-18 Thread jim cline
I managed to use lilypond to typeset a choral piece with decent results, but I am now working on my first piano piece, and encountering a strange problem. The first system has much more space (ridiculously too much) between the treble and bass staves than the second system. It is an extension of

Re: Windows XP, convert-ly in versions > 2.8.1

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
This is the error message for LilyPond 2.8.2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\bin\convert-ly.py", line 39, in ? import lilylib as ly RuntimeError: unable to get modification time from 'C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\lilylib.py' >

Windows XP, convert-ly in versions > 2.8.1

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Python problems under Windows have been reported before. The last LilyPond version I could use convert-ly is 2.8.1, with Python 2.4.2 supplied by LilyPond and Python 2.4.3, separatly installed. With 2.8.2 or 2.9.5 (and any other version after 2.8.1) I ger error messages: convert-ly.py (GNU

Re: programming error: Improbable offset for stencil:

2006-05-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "LC" == Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LC> The attached lilypond file gives a bunch of errors of the form: LC> programming error: Improbable offset for stencil: -1073741857.60 staff space LC> Setting to zero. LC> continuing, cross fingers LC> and then com