Hi!
Sorry about the screamer in the subject line. I've been six
days fighting with the same problem. :(
First things first: I'm using Lilypond 1.2.17, downloaded from
Debian. (Since no one bothered to answer my post asking why
the midi output of 1.3.75 doesn't respect tied notes, I'm stuck
with 1.2.17). I'm running a standalone Pentium 100 Linux box
with 24 megs of memory and 64 megs of swap.
I'm working on a piano score--nothing fancy. It's primarily
contrapuntal, four part, with two voice contexts per staff.
I've called the two voices on the upper staff "soprano" and
"alto," and the two on the lower staff "tenor" and "bass".
In a couple of places, I have to add an extra voice, which I do
by creating additional voice contexts (e.g. "\context Voice =
high" to get an extra voice above the soprano).
Here's my problem. Whenever I run ly2dvi on the .ly file,
I get the usual warnings about too many clashing note columns
and too many colliding rests, then things proceed normally
until I see the following console message:
paper output to score.tex...
[/usr/share/lilypond/ps/lily.ps
At this point, my hard disk starts thrashing like crazy, but
nothing happens. I wait five, ten, twenty-five, sixty minutes
to see if ly2dvi will complete its work and exit, but so far,
it never has.
I can't figure this out. All of the individual parts check out.
No errors. I've produced typset copy of each to verify them.
Furthermore, any combination of up to three parts also works
fine (e.g. SAT, SAB, TBA, etc). It's only when I put all four
voices together that ly2dvi chokes.
What's going on? Any ideas? What would cause ly2dvi to go into
loop, given what I've described above? I really need help on
this, as it's ruining my life not being able to get this score
out of the computer and on to paper.
--
PTPi
Peter Schaffter
15, chemin Brunette, RR2 CP 406
Ste-Cécile-de-Masham (Québec)
CANADA J0X 2W0
A confirmed GNU/Linuxer. Sorry, I don't do Windows.
