Re: Installing lily 1.5.63 messes up abcm2ps

[Mats Bengtsson]

I guess the culprit is the setting of the variables $GS_LIB and/or
$GS_FONTPATH in lilypond-profile, even though I can't understand
exactly what goes wrong.

   /Mats


> Just installed the latest/greatest lily from source on Mandrake 8.0, but
> now abcm2ps (another typesetter) doesn't work when run with my
> format-description. To be more precise the outputted file is not
> understood by neither gv or gimp. Such a problematic postscript file
> that is currently unreadable on my system is here:
> 
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/very_tho.ps
> 
> Without the format file the ps-output from abcm2ps works ok, like in this
> file, created from the same abc-file:
> 
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/Out.ps
> 
> I suppose the problems is somewhere with the fonts I define in my format
> file... But (although I don't pretend to grasp the inner workings of
> postscript and/or gv) I don't see how installing lily can smash the fonts
> used by abcm2ps. For those who know abc, heres my format file:
> 
> barsperstaff  0
> botmargin     0.10cm
> composerfont  Courier-Italic 9.0
> composerspace 0.2cm
> continueall   no
> encoding      ASCII
> exprabove     no
> exprbelow     no
> freegchord    no
> gchordfont    Arial-Italic-Bold 18.0
> graceslurs    yes
> indent                0.00cm
> infofont      Times-Italic 11.0
> infoline      no
> infospace     0.00cm
> landscape     no
> leftmargin    0.30cm
> lineskipfac   1.10
> maxshrink     0.74
> measurebox    no
> measurefirst  measurenb     -1
> musiconly     no
> musicspace    0.00cm
> oneperpage    no
> pageheight    29.7cm
> pagewidth     21.0cm
> parskipfac    0.40
> partsfont     Times-Italic-Bold 25.0 box
> partsspace    0.00cm
> rightmargin   0.10cm
> scale         0.74
> staffsep      2.5cm
> staffwidth    20.6cm
> stretchlast   yes
> stretchstaff  yes
> subtitlefont  Times-Italic-Bold 15.0
> subtitlespace 0.10cm
> sysstaffsep   1.27cm
> tempofont     Courier-Italic 13q.0
> textfont      Courier-Italic 9.0
> textspace     0.50cm
> titlecaps     no
> titlefont     Times-Italic-Bold 26.0
> titleleft     no
> titlespace    0.00cm
> topmargin     0.10cm
> topspace      0.00cm
> vocalabove    no
> vocalfont     Helvetica 13.0
> vocalspace    0cm
> withxrefs     no
> wordsfont     Helvetica 11.0
> wordsspace    0.00cm
> writehistory  no
> 
> Any ideas on how to solve this? I *did* copy lilypond-profile.sh to my
> home dir and added
> 
> . $HOME/lilypond-profile.sh
> 
> to my .bashrc...
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> love, peace & harmony
> Atte
> 
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