Re: Strange fonts

2005-05-11 Thread Alois Steindl
On Dienstag 10 Mai 2005 22:34, Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Lily 2.4.5 from tarball onto a Gentoo system. > However, all the output (including the doc examples) have only basic font > rendering. The fonts have funny spacing and it looks like it isn't linking > to decent fonts. Diffi

Re:

2004-09-17 Thread Alois Steindl
On Freitag, 17. September 2004 03:53, David wrote: > Same thing happens... tho there was no \home directory so i created it so > its now C:\cygwin\home\David\test.ly and still i get nothing... im sure im > missing something simple but who knows... > Hello, with that amount of information it seems

Re: two versions of lilypond on same machine

2004-09-02 Thread Alois Steindl
On Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 13:00, Sean Reed wrote: > hi. > > might anyone have a suggestion as to how to install two separate > versions of lilypond (the current stable and the current unstable) on > the same machine, and then be able to decide which version to run? >[...] > i'm on a mac with

Re: scum in my Lilypond

2003-10-31 Thread Alois Steindl
On Friday 31 October 2003 14:49, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: > Hello, all -- > > I think I messed up my installation of Lilypond... =( > > I decided to configure my UNIX environment (with aliases, etc.) -- > immediately afterward, 'lilypond' was no longer available as an alias. > > Furthermore

Re: png files

2003-02-10 Thread Alois Steindl
On Sonntag, 9. Februar 2003 20:26, wrote: > How do I generate png files (or whatever I need) to display the sheet music > on a web (html) page? > > Hello, you could produce a ps-file and use ghostview (gv, gsview) to generate graphic files (eg. png) from it. Alois

Re: Still lyrics spacing problems

2002-11-19 Thread Alois Steindl
On Montag, 18. November 2002 17:04, Alois Steindl wrote: > Hello, > I just tried my example at my office PC and it works as intended. > I will have a close look what really happens at home. (I could imagine that > there is still some unintended interaction between the installed &g

Re: Still lyrics spacing problems

2002-11-18 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, I just tried my example at my office PC and it works as intended. I will have a close look what really happens at home. (I could imagine that there is still some unintended interaction between the installed TeX-packages TeXLive and tetex. Maybe some environment variables (eg. TEXMFCNF) are

Still lyrics spacing problems

2002-11-17 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, I tried again to write a song for my wife and encountered problems with the spacing of lyrics. Also after upgrading to 1.6.5 my problems persist: The lyric texts are sometimes too close together (In the appended example the words "tanzt auf" in the last line. Also the accompanying chords a

Re: Window installation failed

2002-10-13 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, Richard Trahan schrieb: > [...] > I got the following message: "ps2pdf: not found", and indeed it is > not in cygwin\bin. Also, the generated foo.dvi file shows a staff, > but the rest is garbage. The dvi reader, DVIscope 1.0, complains > about the format: "incorrect \special command synta

Re: PS output looks like junk

2002-10-04 Thread Alois Steindl
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: >This is not the problem. If you followed the discussion, you'd see >that Colin produced a Postscript file which he claims looks weird >on his screen but fine on printer. His file looks fine over here. >Check yourself at >http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

2002-10-03 Thread Alois Steindl
> > >> Hello, >> an (partial) answer to my own question: >> I just tried the same input with lilypond 1.6.4 on an RedHat 7.3 system and it >> worked nicely. I will have to look into the cygwin tree, whether there are >> any old files hidden. > >Run ly2dvi -V to get a verbose listing of all files

Re: Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

2002-09-30 Thread Alois Steindl
On Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:52, Alois Steindl wrote: > Hello, > thanks quite a lot for your answer! > Unfortunately I did send an out-of-phase input file (I experimented with > different settings). Now I rerun the example at home with the final block > > \score { >

Re: Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

2002-09-29 Thread Alois Steindl
\property LyricsVoice .stz = "(2)" Lie- ber, lie- ber Ap- fel, spring doch gleich vom Baum! Schau, ich halt die Schür- ze schon un- ten an dem Saum. } > \score { \simultaneous { \addlyrics \context Staff = mel { \melody }

Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

2002-09-27 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, this week I tried the cygwin port of the new version 1.6.4 with a little song. Since the letters of the lyrics overlap each other, I assume that I have to set some flag to change the spacing rule (from note-length proportional to (maximum) word-width). Is there any flag for archieving suf

Re: Unable to upgrade to Lilypond 1.6.3

2002-09-23 Thread Alois Steindl
On Montag, 23. September 2002 21:18, Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > Lilypond 1.4.13 is installed from rpm's on my Red Hat 7.2 system. > > When I try to upgrade to Lilypond 1.6.3, I get the following: > > error: failed dependencies: > libguile.so.9 is needed by lilypond-1.6.3-1 > libqthread

How to avoid "programming error: Unknown prefatory spacing."?

2002-09-17 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, After installing and re-installing several versions of lilypond-1.6.x, I still get a lot of error messages: programming error: Unknown prefatory spacing. (Continuing; cross thumbs) and for the chords: programming error: No StaffSpacing wishes found (Continuing; cross thumbs) In the out

Ver 1.6.0: No StaffSpacing wishes found

2002-09-13 Thread Alois Steindl
Hello, after a longer pause I tried to use lilypond again; since my TeX-installation had changed, I decided to upgrade lilypond to its latest available version (1.6.0 in the cygwin distribution) [also tried to install it in Redhat 7.3, but that would make a different story] After heavy reconfi