Formatting problems with lilypond-book

2017-07-17 Thread Werner Arnhold
Hi, I try to make a little songbook for my choir with lilypond-book. There are two questions from me: 1. I use a main file "bkc_lieder.lytex" with lines like \lilypondfile[line-width=17.0\cm]{mit_frohsinn_und_gesang.ily} but I would prefer something like \def\opt{line-width=17.0\cm} %

after upgrading problems with lilypond-book

2007-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
After upgrading my Ubuntu Linux I get the following message (lilypond 2.10.25): ## lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.10.25 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lilypond-book", line 1879, in main () File "/usr/bin/lilypond-book", line 1845, in main chunks = do_file (fil

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Dalton wrote: First let me say thank you. The pdflatex solution did indeed work. Unfortunately, this is not a permanent solution. There are indeed differences (both internally and in regards to output) between pdflatex and the latex->dvips->ps2pdf way of doing things. Being one that u

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-22 Thread Fred Leason
Aaron: I tried it using --psfonts and everything worked fine that way as well. dvips(k) 5.95b kpathsea version 3.5.5 >gs --version 8.54 Unfortunately, this version / path / fonts / environment stuff is not my strong point. Good luck! On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Aaron Dalton wrote: Firs

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-22 Thread Aaron Dalton
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Quoting Fred Leason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Aaron: >> >> I pasted your snippet into a TeX file and ran lilypond-book >> (2.11.19.) Output looked good to me. I used pdflatex: >> >> >lilypond-book InlineFragment.tex --pdf --output=pdflatex >> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond)

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Fred Leason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Aaron: I pasted your snippet into a TeX file and ran lilypond-book (2.11.19.) Output looked good to me. I used pdflatex: >lilypond-book InlineFragment.tex --pdf --output=pdflatex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.11.19 Reading InlineFragment.tex... Ru

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-22 Thread Fred Leason
Aaron: I pasted your snippet into a TeX file and ran lilypond-book (2.11.19.) Output looked good to me. I used pdflatex: >lilypond-book InlineFragment.tex --pdf --output=pdflatex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.11.19 Reading InlineFragment.tex... Running latex...This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This sounds like some weird problem with some font file. I seem to remember that there were some similar problems in some distributions of version 2.6 or possibly version 2.8 but not in any of the 2.10 packages available at www.lilypond.org. I hope you have made sure that you really use version 2

Re: Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-21 Thread Aaron Dalton
Aaron Dalton wrote: > Aaron Dalton wrote: >> I am trying to incorporate some musical fragments into a brief paper I'm >> writing. Here is the snippet: >> >> \begin[fragment,staffsize=15]{lilypond} >> \relative c { >> \key c \major >> \clef bass >> \time

Problems with Lilypond-book, accidentals, and time signatures

2007-02-21 Thread Aaron Dalton
I am trying to incorporate some musical fragments into a brief paper I'm writing. Here is the snippet: \begin[fragment,staffsize=15]{lilypond} \relative c { \key c \major \clef bass \time 4/4 r8 e e e e e e e e e e e e e fis

Re: Upgrading lilypond prompts each time new problems with lilypond-book

2005-10-17 Thread Laura Conrad
> "MB" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> What operating system do you use? MB> Does the command create any files at all in the directory out/ ? There was a lilypond-book bug in 2.6.3. Someone claimed it was fixed in cvs 15 minutes after the release. It's on my list t

Re: Upgrading lilypond prompts each time new problems with lilypond-book

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What operating system do you use? Does the command create any files at all in the directory out/ ? /Mats Wolfgang Mechsner wrote: I am sorry, but after upgrading Lilypond always I get a new problem with lilypond-book. The newest one (2.6.3.1.): ### lilypond-book --psfon ts -

Upgrading lilypond prompts each time new problems with lilypond-book

2005-10-16 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
I am sorry, but after upgrading Lilypond always I get a new problem with lilypond-book. The newest one (2.6.3.1.): ### lilypond-book --psfon ts -o out harmonielehre.lytex lilypond-book-bin-2.6.3.1 (GNU LilyPond) 2.6.3.1 harmonielehre.lytex lesen... Zerlegen... Schreibe AuszÃŒge... Al

Re: Problems with lilypond-book

2004-09-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Aaron Dalton writes: > I need some help. I've done some archive searching but can't find an answer. > I am running Lilypond 2.2.2 and am trying to generate a latex document. > > I have set the following environment variables: You installed lilypond from source? Please read and source the buil

Problems with lilypond-book

2004-09-16 Thread Aaron Dalton
I need some help. I've done some archive searching but can't find an answer. I am running Lilypond 2.2.2 and am trying to generate a latex document. I have set the following environment variables: MFINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.2.2/tex:" TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.2.2/tex:/us

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Walter Hofmeister wrote: I have noticed that over the last year there have been repeated requests for how to do certain things (height of alternative ending and getting chords to appear at the correct height). Perhaps much of this could be solved by having an organized document that is included

Re: problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Crowell
Thanks, all, for the suggestions! I've downgraded back to 2.0.3, but am incorporating lots of the changes you all suggested so that a later transition to 2.2.2 will be more smooth. ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ben Crowell writes: > I recently upgraded to lilypond 2.2.2 from 2.0, and am having lots and lots > of problems with recompiling a book I wrote using lilypond-book > (http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html). I'd appreciate > any help from people on the list with getting it working again.

Re: problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ben Crowell writes: > Once the process has hung up for a long time, if I hit control-C, > I get a whole bunch of output, which was apparently waiting to be > flushed. Could you please rerun with --verbose and send the full log? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The

Re: problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-24 Thread Joe Neeman
Ben Crowell wrote: I recently upgraded to lilypond 2.2.2 from 2.0, and am having lots and lots of problems with recompiling a book I wrote using lilypond-book (http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html). I'd appreciate any help from people on the list with getting it working again. I had been

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ben Crowell writes: > In principle, I agree with Joe about users pitching in and > helping. However, IMO that's not really possible Helping is easier than you might imagine and it usually is quite rewarding. It only costs some time and some determination. See what you can figure out yourself, a

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-23 Thread Ben Crowell
TS Sunhede Fulk wrote: >PS. I love Lilypond, So do I! >but the manual is really awful. You really need to write it with a user/reader who >has no programming experience in mind. Joe Neeman wrote: >I agree, but you can help [snip] >I think part of the problem is that the people most likely to wri

problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-23 Thread Ben Crowell
Once the process has hung up for a long time, if I hit control-C, I get a whole bunch of output, which was apparently waiting to be flushed. The tail end of the output contains the following python stack trace: [...lots of output...] paper output to `lily-1813701034.tex'... Traceback (most recent

problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

2004-06-23 Thread Ben Crowell
I recently upgraded to lilypond 2.2.2 from 2.0, and am having lots and lots of problems with recompiling a book I wrote using lilypond-book (http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html). I'd appreciate any help from people on the list with getting it working again. I had been using the followin

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-18 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 6/16/04 4:10 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to >> write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. > While this might be true for some parts of the m

Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to > write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. Thank you for your constructive comment! I never knew what or how to write, but thanks to this crystal clear instruction

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Neeman
PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. I agree, but you can help - the files are in Documentation/user/*.itely. Once my exams tomorrow and saturday are over, I promise to finish that index st

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The original problem you mention (that preLilyPondExample didn't work) is a bug in version 2.2.0-2.2.2 and will be fixed in 2.2.3. In the mean time, you can find several examples of workarounds in the mailing list archives, for example http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-06/msg0007

Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread TS Sunhede Fulk
Hey everyone, This is a two part problem -- the problem before the upgrade and the problem after the upgrade. I just upgraded Lilypond from 2.2.0 to 2.3.4 via Fink. I wanted to see if that would fix a problem that I was having with Lilypond-book. I am creating a songbook with many songs (I use

Re: Problems with lilypond-book

2002-09-09 Thread Colin Cotter
I'm a little confused - I do have a \paper command in my ly file. Can you explain what the format is? Colin > Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have reposted my question with the source attached. I hope that you can > > spot what I am doing wrong! > > Yes, it was my first suggest

Re: Problems with lilypond-book

2002-09-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have reposted my question with the source attached. I hope that you can > spot what I am doing wrong! Yes, it was my first suggestion: add a \paper block. You should also put the two pieces in separate files; lilypond-book will include only the firs

Problems with lilypond-book

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Cotter
Hello, I have reposted my question with the source attached. I hope that you can spot what I am doing wrong! I am having a problem with lilypond-book. I use the command lilypond-book gloworms-book.tex followed by latex gloworms-book.latex I am including some lilypond music by using \lilypondfi