Hello! I've wrestled all evening with Ghostscript, Lilypond, TeX, LaTeX, and Denemo. For the life of me, I cannot get Lilypond to make *beautiful* sheet music. Not printed, not converted to PDF, not saved into a PostScript file, won't look nice in Ghostview, nor even seen from within The GIMP.
I'm running RedHat 7.2 (fresh install as of a couple nights ago). Here are some relevant software versions -- I've used RPM files when available (Denemo wouldn't RPM -- I had to compile): GNU LilyPond 1.4.11 GNU Denemo version 0.5.9. TeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159 kpathsea version 3.3.1 GhostScript version 6.51 GIMP version 1.2.3 I downloaded and tried to install some more fonts, but the accompanying README.txt file explained only where to point certain files from the following archives: fetatype1-1_4_10.tgz fetatype1common.tgz I managed to find feta16.pfa and friends floating around the Internet, and "installed" them into: /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/ But my installation was simply "copy and rename". However, after doing so, Ghostscript stopped complaining that it couldn't find "feta16". Something tells me this is not a happy thing to do. Please find attached a ZIP file containing the LY file I'm using, the PS file I produced, and a screen shot of the not-quite-beautiful resulting grandstaff. If it means anything, the midi file Lilypond creates sounds great! Thanks for any help you can give me in this matter. Sincerely, Dave Jarvis -- Extra stuff that might be relevant ... $ lilypond -f ps shadow.ly lilypond -f ps shadow.ly GNU LilyPond 1.4.11 Now processing: `shadow.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...[8][16][22] Preprocessing elements... Calculating column positions... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][22] paper output to `shadow.ps'... Interpreting music... MIDI output to `shadow.midi'... Track ... $ gs shadow.ps GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2362024 983542 1622424 328124 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2639936 1239217 1642520 335588 0 done. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Medi font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021004l.pfb... 2835332 1315107 1702808 388278 0 done. Loading feta16 font from /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/feta16... 2895620 1379060 1763096 430980 0 done. Loading cmr7 font from /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/cmr7... 2935812 1416385 1768884 446187 0 done. Using CMR7 font for cmr7. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< $ gs --help GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: [ rrrrrrrrrrrip! ] Search path: . : /usr/share/lilypond/ps : /usr/share/lilypond/ps : /usr/share/lilypond/ps : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/vflib : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript : /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 : /usr/share/fonts/default/amspsfnt/pfb : /usr/share/fonts/default/cmpsfont/pfb For more information, see /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-6.51/Use.htm. Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED], using the form in Bug-form.htm.
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