bigcheese problem

2005-01-03 Thread Tatsuya Ono
Hi. I wrote that was seemed LilyPond could not find some bigcheese-fonts. Processing with no "--format" option, LilyPond cannot find bigcheese-fonts on my PC. There was not any serious warning on installing the latest CVS. But with "--format=tex", this problem does not h

Converting MIDI files

2005-01-03 Thread Brian Ames
The current midi2ly.py contains the follwing todo items which are of interest to me: 1 test on weird and unquantised midi input (lily-devel) -- is there a file or files that can be used? 2 do not ever quant skips -- don't understand what is meant 3 drop c++ midi2ly -- replace with Python co

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > by Pango. Even if they use TeX fonts, the information is based on > the PS outlines. I fully support your idea to replace > ec-fonts-mftraced with cmsuper or something similar, converted to > OpenType so that the TFM files are no longer needed. Ideally

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > * LilyPond needs to determine a font both in TeX and PS. > > * LilyPond needs to load those metrics to get a rough estimate of > > sizes. > > Why do you need a rough estimate of sizes for the TeX backend? I > thought this is done by `-f texstr'. Because -f texs

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > We need a new command to select the backend -- I propose > > > \TeXformat and \PSformat so that the `-f ps' and `-f tex' switches > > > become obsolete. > > > > And SVG/Gnome/whatever-we-come-up-with-next? I disagree with this > > idea. > > See my other mail to

precise input location

2005-01-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > While trying to write a protocol for parsing portions of LilyPond text, > typically for more interactive editing (a quick insert mode that > really works), I encoutered few problems wrt input locations. For > instance: > > [snip] > > I would like to (try to)

Re: 2.99.7: first rc of teTeX-3.0

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Esser
> Is this a new feature, or has the layout/location of the PostScript > header path changed? The search path has changed. The old path was TEXPSHEADERS = .;$TEXMF/{dvips,pdftex,tex,fonts/type1}// and it *did* have the complete $TEXMF/tex// in it. > How do we get this to work with tetex-2.0 and

precise input location

2005-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hello, While trying to write a protocol for parsing portions of LilyPond text, typically for more interactive editing (a quick insert mode that really works), I encoutered few problems wrt input locations. For instance: guile> (lyp:print-parse-tree (lyp:parse-line "c8.\\f d16 e8 f g2")) [0-17

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > I believe that `-f tex' and `-f ps' are fundamentally different, > > and that we shouldn't invest time to `unify' both interfaces. > > I disagree. We want both to look equal or as similar as possible. > For example, we can have people develop a score using GNOME point > and click, then print s

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > We need a new command to select the backend -- I propose > > \TeXformat and \PSformat so that the `-f ps' and `-f tex' switches > > become obsolete. > > And SVG/Gnome/whatever-we-come-up-with-next? I disagree with this > idea. See my other mail too. We must make a distinction between backe

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > > * How do we deal with kerning in Pango? AFAIK, Pango does not > > > read AFM/TFM files, so how can it compute kernings? > > > > IIRC Owen has mentioned that he plans to support reading of AFM > > files for Type 1 fonts to get kerning. Kerning from OpenType > > should be supported alread

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hadden we niet al over gehad? [sorry, please ignore] -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ___ lilypond-devel mailing

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > * To provide backend routines for Pango_font::text_stencil, which is > suitable for the SVG and GNOME backends. > > My current idea is to wrap PangoFontDescription as SCM and dump that > into the backend. I hope for some input by Jan on this, since I > guess th

Re: 2.99.7: first rc of teTeX-3.0

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Esser writes: > The search path has changed. The old path was > TEXPSHEADERS = .;$TEXMF/{dvips,pdftex,tex,fonts/type1}// > and it *did* have the complete $TEXMF/tex// in it. I see. > If it is only used as a header file for dvips, just put it somewhere > into $TEXMF/dvips. That works wit

(no subject)

2005-01-03 Thread Tatsuya Ono
Hi. When I'm processing a .ly file, LilyPond (latest cvs) prints this warning: (...) Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][33][36][39][42][45][48][51][54][55] Layout output to `score.ps'... warning: cannot f

Re: Example massacre

2005-01-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: In input/regression/: volta-chord-names.ly Not necessary; covered by volta-multi-staff.ly Well, yes, but only for those of us who are very fluent on LilyPond. Since it's a question that keeps popping up on the mailing list every now and then, I don't think it hurts to inclu

Re: 2.99.7: first rc of teTeX-3.0

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Akira Kakuto writes: >> >> /home/janneke/cvs/savannah/lilypond/lilypond/share/lilypond/tex/source/out/music-drawing-routines.ps > > The directory is wrong. So how come this works with 2.0? Btw, it is also in TEXMF/ps: $ find ./share -follow -name music-drawing-routines.ps ./share/lilypond/

Re: 2.99.7: first rc of teTeX-3.0

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Esser writes: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:37:22AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> dvips: ! Couldn't find header file music-drawing-routines.ps > > dvips uses the 'PostScript header' path for it (TEXPSHEADERS variable, > kpse_tex_ps_header_format from the "C" API of the kpathsea libr

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> We need a new command to select the backend -- I propose \TeXformat >> and \PSformat so that the `-f ps' and `-f tex' switches become >> obsolete. > > And SVG/Gnome/whatever-we-come-up-with-next? I disagree with this > idea. In fact, I would like to remove as much non-