Re: Windows/TEST: lilypond-1.8.1-11

[Warren Stickney]

On comparison with the (-p) PS output from 1.6.8, I notice that there are
differences in the 1.8.1 settings:

Summarising these for 1.8.1:

1  The font used in my

head = "\\footnotesize \\textnormal {name of composer: title}"

is different, and not useable as such as the interletter spacing is all over
the place, I would have to specify something like \\textit, \\textbf, etc,
and then it looks good. Of course this is easy to do and not really a
problem.

1.6.8 gave a plain (roman?) but very useable font with \\textnormal

Possibly the default font is user settable by some means?


2  The positioning on the page is different, where in a particular case I
could get 3 systems on page 1 with 1.6.8 using, say

\property Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 3)       % and in the paper
block
                  textheight = 25.6\cm
                  interscoreline = 8.0\mm

1.8.1 gives only 2 widely spaced systems.

The printout seems to start further down from the top.


3  Within systems, staves are spread further apart for the same setting of
minimumVerticalExtent, although the height of each stave is the same, and
the lyrics font size seems the same.


4  The left margin is larger and the right margin less, moving the music
slightly to the right.


I can apply different settings of course to achieve what I want, so I simply
raise these differences as a matter of interest.


These changes could, of course, have been present in 1.8.0 also, I didn't
have any time to explore 1.8.0.


Warren Stickney
Wellington,
New Zealand

Further to my:

>--------------------------
>
>Installed 1.8.1-11 over my 1.8.0 and it works well for ly2dvi, either -p
>or -P, and OK for lilypond-book (1.8.1), but I still have my follow-on
latex
>problem of "I can't find lilyponddefs.tex" and subsequent fail.
>
>I am using cygwin 1.5.2-1
>
>Files downloaded were, I believe:
>
>libgettextpo0  0.12.1-3
>lilypond  1.8.1-11
>perl  5.8.1-1
>tetex-tiny  2.0.2-12
>
>
>Warren Stickney
>Wellington,
>New Zealand
>
>
>Replying to your:
>
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>>Message: 8
>>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:56:10 +0200
>>From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>
>>Subject: Windows/TEST: lilypond-1.8.1-11
>>To: address@hidden
>>Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>>
>>lilypond-1.8.1 is available for Cygwin, in the TEST/Experimental
>>distribution.  Tetex has also been updated in the Cygwin TEST
>>distribution.  This should fix a number of problems reported lately.
>>
>>Please post success or failure reports here.
>>
>>Windows users should know by now that Cygwin is using the
>>TEST/Experimental distribution (in setup.exe's Package selection
>>screen, choose the (x) Exp radio button) to test the new release.
>>
>>Make sure that you are running cygwin-1.5.2 (or newer) and other
>>packages from TEST, using packages from Curr will not work.
>>
>>Jan.
>>
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