Re: lilypond-book: where are my noteheads?

[Mats Bengtsson]

It turns out that Bernie's problems appear since he has a too old version
of ghostscript installed (to verify what version you have, run the
command 'gs --version'). Clearly, GNU Ghostscript version 7.07 is too old.
Version 8.15 should hopefully be new enough, but install the newest you can
find at www.ghostscript.com.

  /Mats

bernie arai wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: bernie arai <address@hidden>
> Date: Apr 7, 2006 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: lilypond-book: where are my noteheads?
> To: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
>
>
> On 4/7/06, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > You need both the flag --psfonts to lilypond-book and the corresponding
> > flag -h ... to dvips, as described in the manual, to get the musical
> > font into the Postscript file. Note that
> > the note heads will not show up in your DVI viewer.
> >
> >   /Mats
> >
> >    
>
> thanks for your attention to my troubles, mats.
>
> i've been following the manual instructions to a T since the start (or
> so i believe).  using the --psfonts flag for lilyopnd-book and the -h
> for divps.  still, the resulting pdf has no noteheads.  dvips shows
> some "font not found" type of errors, but the manual says i should
> ignore them.  i don't know how to see a more verbose output from
> ps2pdf (to look for error messages), so i'm having trouble figuring
> out where the problem is originating.
>
> btw, thanks for letting me know that the DVI viewer won't show the
> noteheads, but the pdf should.  that would be really helpful in the
> user's guide.  i kept looking at the dvi and assumed the problem must
> be somewhere before that in the chain, but i now know that's not
> neccessarily so.
>
> bernie
>
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