Mysterious lilypond not working problem solved.

2001-12-03 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
At MIT, we have a bunch of centrally maintained redhat machines. As far as I can tell, the central system decided to install guile1.3. It removed my guile1.4, and put in a 1.3. When I removed it and reinstalled 1.4, everything worked again. Thanks for all your suggestions. rif _

Lilypond suddenly stopped working for me.

2001-12-03 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
I was running lilypond (ly2dvi) bunches of times, it was working fine. Somehow, it stopped working. I don't think I changed anything. Whenever I try to run it now, on a known good file, I get the following error: bash-2.03$ ly2dvi slow-and-easy-blues.ly Running LilyPond... lilypond: error while

Having trouble changing from a4 to letter paper size.

2001-11-29 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
I'm trying to print out my score on letter paper. According to the manual, you have to set papersize at top level. So not in any braces, before the \paper block, I have (including the paper block): papersize = "letter" \paper { indent = 0.0\mm } If I replace the papersize command with pape

Spacing, padding

2001-11-14 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
Two different but related questions? 1. How do I get dynamic markings to show up centered --- associated with the music rather than a note? If I start my piano piece with: \partial 4 b'8-\mp a8 the mp marking shows up quite close to the b, when I'd really like it centered betwe

Changing font size?

2001-11-14 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
I'm using lilypond 1.4.6 under RedHat Linux. The manual suggests that I could change the font size via a command such as \include "paper23.ly" Looking at this file, it defines it's own paper block, so I assumed I'd just replace my own (empty) paper block with this command? If I do this, I ge

Ties and Slurs

2001-11-04 Thread Ryan M. Rifkin
Hi. I have three questions on ties and slurs. I'm using lilypond 1.4.6 curently. 1. I'm typesetting a piano piece, and the first chord in the right hand needs to be three and a half beats long (in 4/4 time), so I'm trying to tie a dotted half to a quarter. So the beginning of the right-hand