Re: no heads issue...

2002-10-28 Thread Michael D Barker
Al Arduengo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alas I have discovered that the reason I saw no heads to notes or > dynamic markings appears to be related to my machine. I tried xpdf, > acroread and gv to view the pdf and ps formatted files with no > luck. Then, on a whim, I looked at them on my Windows

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: The recommended procedure to produce a PDF file of a score is 'ly2dvi -p file.ly'. It will use vector fonts instead of bitmapped fonts, so you don't get the fuzzy note heads when the you view the file in Acrobat. Do you know if that's what Emacs does wh

Re: Persistent font problems

2002-10-28 Thread Russell Smiley
I've attached the output of 'locate feta'. I also tried 'ly2dvi -p' to output pdf. This appears to fix the problem as you suggested. The only much more minor (cosmetic) complaint is that the bracket for the piano staff appears to be the wrong size. I think I can live with that. :-) Thanks for yo

Re: tempo markings

2002-10-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:45:24 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > >Three options: > >- Place a mark (see the reference manual) in every single part of > >your piece. Print parts. Then go back and comment out the marks in > >all parts apart from the first one, then

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The recommended procedure to produce a PDF file of a score is 'ly2dvi -p file.ly'. It will use vector fonts instead of bitmapped fonts, so you don't get the fuzzy note heads when the you view the file in Acrobat. Do you know if that's what Emacs does when you choose Comman

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding? -- solved

2002-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> > Doug Asherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>the steps to produce a pdf file > > > > > > Just use ly2dvi -p > > My mistake -- I did this, checked again, and it looked fine under > windows. Great -- now I can really start to enjoy the coolness of lilypond. > > Doug Great. Jan.

Re: compile-error with slackware 8.1

2002-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
hahem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dowloaded lilypond 1.6.6, and it compiled fine on my Mandrake-system. > > Howewer, I get some nasty error-messages while doing "make all" in my > slackware 8.1 distro... That should give you a hint... > /home/halvor/lilypond-1.6.6/stepmake/stepmake/gene

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Doug Asherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the steps to produce a pdf file Just use ly2dvi -p > This is using xpdf to view the pdf file -- if I use gv, it views > ok. But this isn't really good, because I have to send the pdf file > off to MSWin users. [Several versions of] xpdf are know to be

Re: Positionig text markup

2002-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I always use the padding property, example: \property Voice.TextScript \override #'padding = #3 The problem with 'raise' in text markup is that it only raises the text object relative to some other text object in the same text markup. I'm not sure why it works to add a columns declaration. /Ma

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The recommended procedure to produce a PDF file of a score is 'ly2dvi -p file.ly'. It will use vector fonts instead of bitmapped fonts, so you don't get the fuzzy note heads when the you view the file in Acrobat. /Mats ___ Lilypond-user mailing li

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
> if I take this through the steps to produce a pdf file (lydvi input.ly, > dvips input.dvi ps2pdf input.ps) or just do the one-step thing, I end up > with a pdf file that has incomplete note-heads. This is using xpdf to > view the pdf file -- if I use gv, it views ok. But this isn't really > good,