Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read the documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Updating-files-with-convert_002dly.html#Updating-files-with-convert_002dly /Mats Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi Mats, I tried convert-ly on one of my files, and still couldn't get lilypond to compile.

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See also the documentation of the properties 'betweensystemspace' and 'betweensystempadding' in the sections "10.1.3 Page formatting" and "10.1.5 Vertical spacing". /Mats Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Yes both of those do work. I generally have tried to adjust the 'size' using vari

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Yes both of those do work. I generally have tried to adjust the 'size' using various numbers until I get the result I want. So Yes letter Yes set size to 20 or less and it should do the trick. Jay dpeach wrote: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"?

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jun-05, at 5:03 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Youse guys are good! I did that, and it corrected a whole bunch of bad code from my previous efforts. Now I have two questions: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? How? And, in Read the manual! o

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread dpeach
Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? I have a score with this in it: #(set-default-paper-size "letter") I assume that does it. I am working from another hymn that I have hacked up. And, in one hymn, the staff systems are quite far apart, taking two

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi Stan! Youse guys are good! I did that, and it corrected a whole bunch of bad code from my previous efforts. Now I have two questions: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? How? And, in one hymn, the staff systems are quite far apart, taking two pa

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi Mats, I tried convert-ly on one of my files, and still couldn't get lilypond to compile. Just so I know, is it: convert-ly [oldfilename.ly] [newfilename.ly] or convert-ly filename.ly (thus revising the text file)? Because this is what I tried, and kept getting errors I couldn't make out

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You mentioned convert-ly yourself in an earlier email. That should fix your existing files. Of course, you have to learn what has changed to be able to write new scores. A good starting point is the NEWS file on the documentation page for 2.5.xx. /Mats Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! Aha! That d

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi! Aha! That did it! (I thought I had done the gmake install already.) Now I have to figure out how to get my present files to configure. I'm having trouble with the syntax, which I don't really understand, but simply have used templates that worked. Maybe I need to find a couple of temp

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jun-05, at 3:32 AM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I have just installed, under the very able guidance of Graham Percival, version 2.5.29 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. Now, when I try to run it, the program won't launch, nor will it convert-ly. What am I missing here? I'm thinking it might be that

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi all! I have just installed, under the very able guidance of Graham Percival, version 2.5.29 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. Now, when I try to run it, the program won't launch, nor will it convert-ly. What am I missing here? I'm thinking it might be that the program was installed (at Graham's