Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > I asked because I run lilypond from jEdit, and I want the result to be > in the same directory as the source. Ok, that makes sense. Maybe we should have a lilypond.bat and a lilypond-desktop.bat or something. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPon

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
With lilypond.bat: why does it make sense, to put the result onto the Desktop? I asked because I run lilypond from jEdit, and I want the result to be in the same directory as the source. Bert ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > A question: > with which file should I run lilypond? lilypond.bat or lilypond.exe? That depends, for now they both work, I guess. The .exe has some extra functionality of tweaking the environment, that may be removed in the future. I'm not sure yet, because running the

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
A question: with which file should I run lilypond? lilypond.bat or lilypond.exe? With lilypond.bat: why does it make sense, to put the result onto the Desktop? Bert ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Schneelocke wrote: I tried manually replacing the #f's by paths to the respective font files, but that doesn't work, either, not even when I change the BeginFont directives and remove the extra "PFA" prefixes. I attached a file that shows the ghostscript errors I get in that case, just in case it

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-27 Thread Schneelocke
Hi, > > I tried manually replacing the #f's by paths to the respective font > > files, but that doesn't work, either, not even when I change the > > BeginFont directives and remove the extra "PFA" prefixes. I attached a > > file that shows the ghostscript errors I get in that case, just in > > cas

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-27 Thread Schneelocke
Hi, > > I don't think Cygwin creates a context menu item - it really just > > installs the binary package, which is then usable from a shell. > > Yes it does. Touché - I just checked, reinstalling the Cygwin package, and you're right. Unfortunately, neither that nor another reinstall of the new

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Schneelocke writes: --- CUT HERE --- %%BeginFont: PFAAybabtu-Regular (#f) (r) file .loadfont %%EndFont %%BeginFont: PFAPFAEmmentaler-23 (#f) (r) file .loadfont %%EndFont --- CUT HERE --- Thanks. I'm sure that I've seen this PFAPFA bug before, but I cannot rem

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Schneelocke writes: > --- CUT HERE --- > %%BeginFont: PFAAybabtu-Regular > (#f) (r) file .loadfont > %%EndFont > > %%BeginFont: PFAPFAEmmentaler-23 > (#f) (r) file .loadfont > %%EndFont > --- CUT HERE --- Thanks. I'm sure that I've seen this PFAPFA bug before, but I cannot remember when/where

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Schneelocke
Hi Jan, > If you look in the .ps with a text editor, you'll see that fonts are > loaded by a command that looks like > > %%BeginFont: PFAEmmentaler-20 > (c:/Program > Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/2.5.25/fonts/type1//PFAemmentaler-20.pfa) > (r) file .loadfont > %%EndFont > > Th

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Schneelocke writes: > Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- > Operand stack: >(#f) (r) > I'm not sure which missing file it's complaining about really If you look in the .ps with a text editor, you'll see that fonts are loaded by a command that looks like %%BeginFont: PFAEmmentaler-20

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Schneelocke
Hi Jan, > > Neat, thanks. :) Here's one thing I noticed: the > > "xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly" example doesn't work. The ps file is > > created, but the PDF conversion fails; > > The pdf conversion worked for me (but my test machine does not have > asian fonts installed), could you try running gs fro

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Laura Conrad
> "JN" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JN> We are pondering on ways to push/promote these installers to new JN> groups of users. Maybe others have good ideas? I forwarded the two announcements to the abcusers list. I think there are a lot of people there who would l

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Basil Crow writes: > Wow! I am positively amazed. If I could buy you a drink right now, > I would. Thanks. > This puts LilyPond miles ahead in terms of being able to spread > to Windows users. Yes, that's the idea, but it would be good if we could finish some rough edges first. We are ponderi

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ruud van Silfhout writes: > I tried it, and... > it worked like clockwork! great! > I haven't tried point and click yet, but I will let you know Great. Thanks for testing it. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > WOW! > > It is working from the first moment! I could not try it thoroughly, > but I could run it from jEdit, and it produced well my test > file. (However, I could not view the pdf with Multivalent, may be some > font problem. I'll investigate it further.) Yes, please.

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Schneelocke writes: > Neat, thanks. :) Here's one thing I noticed: the > "xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly" example doesn't work. The ps file is > created, but the PDF conversion fails; The pdf conversion worked for me (but my test machine does not have asian fonts installed), could you try running gs fro

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Hans Forbrich
On May 25, 2005 08:34 pm, Basil Crow wrote: > If I could buy you a drink right now, I would. You can ... or something quite close to it ;-) http://lilypond.org/web/about/doneet /Hans -- Proud user of Lilypond Music Typesetting Tools http://www.lilypond.org

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Basil Crow
Jan, Wow! I am positively amazed. If I could buy you a drink right now, I would. This puts LilyPond miles ahead in terms of being able to spread to Windows users. It worked for me with no problems whatsoever, including the recognition of fonts in my Windows font folder. The only inconsistency

Re: xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly (Was: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows)

2005-05-25 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Matthias Neeracher wrote: On May 25, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Schneelocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Neat, thanks. :) Here's one thing I noticed: the "xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly" example doesn't work. The ps file is created, but the PDF conversion fails; Interesting that

xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly (Was: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows)

2005-05-25 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On May 25, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Schneelocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Neat, thanks. :) Here's one thing I noticed: the"xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly" example doesn't work. The ps file iscreated, but the PDF conversion fails; Interesting that you should mention this. I'm having rather similar problems with t

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Pedro Kröger
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > given the positive feedback, I think we could list it on the download > page as well? yes. I added it in cvs, take a look and see what you think. I assumed it's the 2.5.25 version and the "packager" is "LilyPond development team" Pedro _

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: The past weeks I've spent my lily development time on a mingw port and installer for windows. I'm sure this is far from perfect, but I do not want to hold it back any longer. The installer is not directly aimed at Cygwin/unix gurus, but rather meant for people who just

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Schneelocke
Hi Jan, > send success reports, bug reports, and patches here. Neat, thanks. :) Here's one thing I noticed: the "xiao-haizi-guai-guai.ly" example doesn't work. The ps file is created, but the PDF conversion fails; attempting to view the ps file itself results in the following messages: --- CUT H

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor
WOW! It is working from the first moment! I could not try it thoroughly, but I could run it from jEdit, and it produced well my test file. (However, I could not view the pdf with Multivalent, may be some font problem. I'll investigate it further.) In the next days I will check this release s

Re: native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: The past weeks I've spent my lily development time on a mingw port and installer for windows. I'm sure this is far from perfect, but I do not want to hold it back any longer. The installer is not directly aimed at Cygwin/unix gurus, but rather meant for people who just

native LilyPond port for Microsoft Windows

2005-05-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
The past weeks I've spent my lily development time on a mingw port and installer for windows. I'm sure this is far from perfect, but I do not want to hold it back any longer. The installer is not directly aimed at Cygwin/unix gurus, but rather meant for people who just want to use LilyPond. The