Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

[Mats Bengtsson]

The original problem you mention (that preLilyPondExample didn't
work) is a bug in version 2.2.0-2.2.2 and will be fixed in 2.2.3.
In the mean time, you can find several examples of workarounds in
the mailing list archives, for example
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-06/msg00071.html

In the mailing list archives and on the downloads page, you will also
find out that
- 2.3.4 is still in a fairly experimental stage and should not
  be expected to be as stable as 2.2.x.
- To run 2.3.4, you also need an additional package with fonts.
  I don't know about the Fink distribution, but I consider it a
  bug in the Fink package if that new dependency isn't taken into
  account.

    /Mats

TS Sunhede Fulk wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> This is a two part problem -- the problem before the upgrade and the 
> problem after the upgrade.
>
> I just upgraded Lilypond from 2.2.0 to 2.3.4 via Fink. I wanted to see 
> if that would  fix a problem that I was having with Lilypond-book. I am 
> creating a songbook with many songs (I used \lilypondfile{filename.ly} 
> in Latex). I wanted the header information to appear for each song, so I 
> followed the crappy, I mean sparse, instructions in the manual (adding 
> \preLilyPondExample, etc.). However, that did not work (one of the 
> errors was "\postLilyPondExample not defined").
>
> So I upgraded Lilypond. The examples still don't have header information 
> printed, and now there are a bunch of other problems. The biggest is 
> that lyrics are no longer printed ("dvips: Font ecrm10 not found, 
> characters will be left blank.").
>
> Has anyone gotten a songbook with each song having header information 
> printed in Lilypond-book? Could someone write a full explanation (i.e., 
> no steps left out -- and lots of good examples)  for how to do this in 
> Latex/Lilypond-book (that explanation should then be added to the 
> manual, which is extremely cryptic and telescopic for those of us who 
> don't know Python or TeX).
>
> Can someone also help me with the font problem? Is it a Fink problem, or 
> do I just need to rerun all the songs in the new version of Lilypond 
> (boring)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ted S. Sunhede Fulk
> Örebro, Sweden
>
> PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to 
> write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind.
>
>
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