Re: Q: metafont not being called unless i run xdvi

[Mats Bengtsson]

Did you remember to run 'texhash' after the installation?
What do the folllowing commands return?

kpsewhich --format='dvips config' lilypond.map
kpsewhich feta20.pfa

  /Mats


Quoting David Petrou <address@hidden>:

> > I definitely recommend 1., building Lilypond without kpathsea is
> > asking for problems.
> 
> well, i did that, and now my pdf output is completely mangled.
> 
> i installed tetex-devel which has kpathsea.  (i had to force install
> this rpm because my tetex installation was in a weird place that rpm
> didn't find.)
> 
> then, in my lily 1.6.6 dir i did:
> make uninstall
> make distclean
> ./configure --blah
> make all
> make install
> 
> then i ran
> make pfa-fonts
> make MAKE_PFA_FILES=1 install
> 
> like you suggest in
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/lilypond-user/2002-October/003014.html
> 
> all of these commands terminated correctly (that is, they returned 0
> to my shell).  ./configure found my kpathsea and everything...
> 
> now, running ly2dvi -p on a perfectly good ly file, i get pdf output
> when things like the letter 'l' for the trebel clef, the letter 'j'
> for the bass clef, etc.  the only output that is correct is the
> horizontal and vertical lines of the staff, and things like beams.
> noteheads come up as exclamation marks.  this is really fun.  the only
> good thing about this is that everything is infinitely scalable; there
> are no jaggies when i zoom in really far.
> 
> any idea what went wrong?  should i try installation premade pfa
> files?  if so, how?
> 
> >     /Mats
> 
> thanks,
> happy holidays,
> david
>