RE: LilyPond error: ps2pdf not found

[P Scott Horne]

Thanks once more for your help.  I had indeed misunderstood the
documentation.  Removing the equality sign solved the problem.

I have two other issues to report.  The first seems to be a bug:

        \property Voice.Slur \set #'attachment = #'(stem . stem) ees'4 ( <f )
ais> }

was converted by  convert-ly  to

        { \override Slur   #'attachment = #'(stem . stem ees'4) ( <f ais>) }

Notice that the parentheses were incorrectly altered.  I was able to find
this error and correct the file by hand; I am reporting the problem only for
the benefit of the developers of  convert-ly.

The second problem is that my lyrics are rendered in Courier in the PDF
file.  Evidently the Computer Modern fonts could not be found (by
ghostscript, presumably):

        CMR8 not found, using Courier.
        CMB10 not found, using Courier.

Their metrics, however, were found, for the spacing of characters and the
positioning of diacritical marks are those of CM.

What is peculiar is that the other text, such as the title and all markings
within the music (such as "Maestoso" and "cresc."), are correctly presented
in CM.  Even the stanza numbers that precede the lyrics are in CM.  Only the
lyrics themselves are in Courier.

Running  ps2pdf  by hand gives the same result, though with no error
messages.

I assume that merely adding a directory to a path somewhere will solve this
problem, but I cannot figure out where to make the settings.  Any help would
be appreciated.

Scott Horne


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 7 septembre 2004 05:58
> To: P Scott Horne
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: LilyPond error: ps2pdf not found
>
>
> The documentation for the options of convert-ly is slightly
> unclear. Try to remove the '=' in the -f option:
> convert-ly -e -f 1.6.8 `find . -name '*.ly' -print`
>
>    /Mats
>
> P Scott Horne wrote:
> > Thanks for your help.  I succeeded in installing ghostscript
> and was able to
> > build a sample LilyPond file.
> >
> > Unfortunately, now I am experiencing another problem.  I wish
> to update some
> > old LilyPond files that I prepared with version 1.6.8.  (They
> cannot even be
> > built as they stand because they violate the syntax of the
> latest version.)
> > I tried running
> >
> >     $ convert-ly -e -f=1.6.8 `find . -name '*.ly' -print`
> >
> > and got the following error message:
> >
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "/usr/bin/convert-ly", line 2199, in ?
> >         from_version = str_to_tuple (a)
> >       File "/usr/bin/convert-ly", line 91, in str_to_tuple
> >         return tuple (map (string.atoi, string.split (s,'.')))
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.3/string.py", line 220, in atoi
> >         return _int(s, base)
> >     ValueError: invalid literal for int(): =1
> >
> > The same thing happened when I tried running  convert-ly  with a single
> > file.  I was, however, able to run it with no files (using such options
> > s  -s  and  -h),  so it does at least do something.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  Does this look like a problem with  convert-ly  or a
> > defect in my  .ly  files? or perhaps another problem with installation?
> >
> > Again, this is with Lilypond 2.2.5 for Windows.
> >
> > Scott Horne
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden
> >>Sent: 6 septembre 2004 06:01
> >>To: P Scott Horne
> >>Cc: address@hidden
> >>Subject: Re: LilyPond error: ps2pdf not found
> >>
> >>
> >>Just rerun setup.exe once more and make sure that the
> >>package ghostscript is selected (it should be by default
> >>if you install LilyPond, but sometimes it seems to fail).
> >>
> >>    /Mats
> >>
> >>P Scott Horne wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have just installed the latest version of LilyPond for
> >>
> >>Windows from your
> >>
> >>>Web site.  When I tried to run the test ('test.ly'), I got an
> >>
> >>error message:
> >>
> >>>"ps2pdf not found".  How can I obtain and install this missing utility?
> >>>
> >>>For your reference, I have attached a copy of the log file.
> >>>
> >>>Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> >>>
> >>>Scott Horne
> >>>
> >>>
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