Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/29/11 12:14 PM, "James Bailey" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/29/11 7:45 AM, "James Samir Ismail" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>>> The first thing to do is to run the specified command from a terminal
>>>> window:
>>>> 
>>>> lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
>>>> 
>>>> You said before that "it didn't work".  We don't know what that means, so
>>>> we
>>>> can't help you.
>>> 
>>> This is what it means:
>>> 
>>> Zamzam:bin samir$ ./lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
>>> GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
>>> warning: not relocating, no 2.12.3/ or current/ found under
>>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/share/lilypond/
>>> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
>>> ERROR: Unable to find file "lily.scm" in load path
>>> Zamzam:bin samir$
>>> 
>>>> You should execute the command, and then report on the results.  Preferably
>>>> with a copy of the output that went to the terminal window.
>>>> 
>>>> Once we get that, we can start to troubleshoot the problem you're having.
>>>> 
>>>> HTH,
>>>> 
>>>> Car
>>> 
>>> Is there a different way I should be executing this? I'm runing MacOS 10.6,
>>> Lilypond v2.12.3.
>> 
>> I don't use the installed version of LilyPond on my Mac, because I wanted to
>> be able to build it.  So my advice may be somewhat suspect.
>> 
>> Have you tried running lilypond without the ./ in front of it?  In other
>> operating systems, lilypond installs with a path variable that allows it to
>> run from a terminal window from any directory.  I don't know if it does or
>> not on OSX.
>> 
>> However, I think that you have probably identified the problem correctly,
>> that is, the missing files in the Pango installation.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
> 
> To clarify, if I run this command from the folder containing the lilypond
> binary (~/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/), I get the
> abovementioned error. I get this error regarldess of using latest git,
> distributed development, or latest stable.
> 
> If I run this command from my home user directory (~/), I get:
> GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
> warning: no such internal option: show-available-fonts-x

There was no dash between show-available-fonts and x.

x was a dummy filename that is never read.

Thanks,

Carl