Re: trouble using lilypond-book

[Olivier Cloirec]

I'm not sure, but -p is used for generate PDF files (it uses Type1 
fonts) whereas -P generates PostScript output with bitmap fonts.
Look at your /usr/(local/)share/lilypond/1.8.0/fonts if there are "afm" 
and "tfm" fonts...

Olivier

arie-lily wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 02:23, Olivier Cloirec wrote:
>  
>
> > Is a simple .ly file works with a PostScript output?
> >    
>
> NO, it doesn't. If I run 
>     ly2dvi -P file.ly
> and then view the file with
>     ghostview file.ps
> it gives the same terrible result.
>
> But... if I just run ly2dvi -p file.ly, a ps file is created anyway
> which is alright when using the same 
>     ghostview file.ps
> command. You know what's wrong here?
>
> arie
>
>