Re: SOLVED: Re: Error in printing ff

[Friedrich Kink]

Hi James,

if you mean to use something like this:

.
.
\fontencoding{T1}\fontfamily{TexGyre}\selectfont
\begin{document}
.
.
Then it did not chance the output. The ligatures are still printed as a
blank.

kind regards,
  Fritz

Am 21.02.2017 um 12:48 schrieb James:
> Hello Freidrich,
>
> Can you use an explicit font reference - to our TexGyre family - in
> MikTex than let it pick the default font (which I assume it is
> doing?), maybe the font family it is using doesn't come with ligatures?
>
> James
>
>
> On 20/02/17 20:15, Friedrich Kink wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> thank you for being that tenacious. I really think it is related to the
>> combination with MikTeX, because lilypond works perfect (I checked the
>> temp files lilypond-book.py was createing). BTW this is my command chain
>> I use to create a song sheet (started from within UEStudio):
>>
>> lilypond-book.py --pdf --format=latex --output "c:\temp\%n" %n%e &&
>> texify.exe --clean --quiet --pdf --run-viewer "c:\temp\%n\%n%e" && rmdir
>> /s /q "c:\temp\%n"
>>
>> But I followed your advise and deleted the fontcache for lilypond and
>> also for latex. Still no improvement. I'll update once the issue
>> disappears.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>     Fritz
>>
>> PS: I noticed that inline picture were remove, so for completeness I
>> attached them again.
>>
>> Am 20.02.2017 um 19:16 schrieb James:
>>> Hello Friedrich,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/02/17 20:10, Friedrich Kink wrote:
>>>> Hi James,
>>>>
>>>> that was quick. Well I'm using Windows 10 version 1607. I attached
>>>> a the
>>>> snippet you provided (ok almost the same despite I haven't version
>>>> 2.19.56) created with 2.19.25
>>>>
>>>> As you can see the "ff" does not look like a real ligature. I tried
>>>> the
>>>> same with 2.19.55 (latest version I have access too) and the result
>>>> looks like
>>>>
>>>> where "ff" looks like a ligature.
>>>>
>>>> So in fact lilypond improved and is working as expected but together
>>>> with pdflatex (latest MikTeX) it creates the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for making lilypond guilty. Once i find the real problem I'll
>>>> let
>>>> you know.
>>>>
>>>> kind regards,
>>>>     Fritz
>>> Well I downloaded the latest dev (2.19.55) and ran it on my windows
>>> desktop at work.
>>>
>>> I get ligatures.
>>>
>>> See attached
>>>
>>> So I can only assume it is a Windows 10-specific problem or maybe even
>>> just a font cache issue [1]
>>>
>>> If you  run the LilyPond command with the '-V' option (verbose) and
>>> then scan the output from the 'end' backwards - if you see what I
>>> mean? - you should see the font 'stuff'.
>>>
>>> Here is mine on Windows 8.1.
>>>
>>> The last part of my output shows
>>>
>>> --snip--
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Interpreting music...
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-20.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-20 to Emmentaler-20.]
>>> elapsed time: 0.03 seconds
>>> Element count 49 (spanners 6)
>>> Preprocessing graphical objects...
>>> Grob count 95
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-11.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-11 to Emmentaler-11.]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-13.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-13 to Emmentaler-13.]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-14.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-14 to Emmentaler-14.]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-16.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-16 to Emmentaler-16.]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-18 to Emmentaler-18.]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-23.otf
>>> Replace font name from Emmentaler-23 to Emmentaler-23.]
>>> [lilypond_serif_8.083984375]
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> [lilypond_serif_bold_6.1376953125]
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Bold to TeXGyreSchola-Bold.
>>> [lilypond_serif_10.544921875]
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Finding the ideal number of pages...
>>> [lilypond_serif_3.8662109375]
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Fitting music on 1 page...
>>> Drawing systems...
>>> Element count 61
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Replace font name from TeXGyreSchola-Regular to TeXGyreSchola-Regular.
>>> Layout output to `./tmp-lilypond-9BAzHg'...
>>> Initializing embedded CFF font list.
>>> Embedding CFF font `TeXGyreSchola-Bold'.
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/texgyreschola-bold.otf]
>>>
>>> Embedding CFF font `TeXGyreSchola-Regular'.
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/texgyreschola-regular.otf]
>>>
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ps/music-drawing-routines.ps]
>>> [C:/Program Files
>>> (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ps/lilyponddefs.ps]
>>> Converting to `blah.pdf'...
>>> Invoking `gs -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
>>> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
>>> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOu
>>> tputFile=blah.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -f./tmp-lilypond-9BAzHg'...
>>>
>>> GPL Ghostscript 9.20 (2016-09-26)
>>> Copyright (C) 2016 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>>> Deleting `./tmp-lilypond-9BAzHg'...
>>> ]
>>> Success: compilation successfully completed
>>>
>>> --snip--
>>>
>>> It would be interesting perhaps to see if you have all the 'texgyre*'
>>> font entries and what the Ghostscript output is, in case someone can
>>> see anything wrong with your entry.
>>>
>>> [1] You can force a rebuild of your font cache by deleting the
>>> directory located in #
>>>
>>> C:\Users\[yourname]\.lilypond-fonts.cache-2
>>>
>>> Then re-run the command.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>   Am 19.02.2017 um 19:52 schrieb James Lowe:
>>>>> Hello Friedrich,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:09:39 +0100
>>>>> Friedrich Kink <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Simon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks for the fast answer. By chance I found another example
>>>>>> which I
>>>>>> try to present as a snippet:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> \layout {
>>>>>>     ragged-right = ##t
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> \header {
>>>>>>      title = \markup \sans { "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig"}
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> { c'4 d' e2 }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again the ligature "fl" does not work. As a further hint, this
>>>>>> worked
>>>>>> until and including version 2.19.25 (true for initial problem, too)
>>>>>> til then it just prints a blank instead of "fl" or "ff".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kind regards,
>>>>>>      Fritz
>>>>> Just to make sure we are troubleshooting the correct thing (i.e. this
>>>>> isn't something local to your system).
>>>>>
>>>>> I used this modified version of your example - in case there was a
>>>>> problem in the 'context' of the markup as to where the ligatures
>>>>> might
>>>>> not be showing up.
>>>>>
>>>>> --snip--
>>>>>
>>>>> \version "2.19.56"
>>>>>
>>>>> \layout {
>>>>>     ragged-right = ##t
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> \header { title = "Ach wie fiuchtig" }
>>>>>
>>>>> { c'4^\markup \abs-fontsize #23 { "Ach wie flüchtig" } d' e2 }
>>>>>
>>>>> \markup \abs-fontsize #30 { "Ach wie ffüchtig" }
>>>>>
>>>>> --snip--
>>>>>
>>>>> See attached png for output.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please excuse the deliberate spelling
>>>>> mistakes, I was just illustrating the basic 3 ligatures fl, fi and ff
>>>>> and they all work for me on the most current build as you can see
>>>>> on my
>>>>> output.
>>>>>
>>>>> We did have a problem with ligatures not working in Windows - and we
>>>>> had an issue for that back in 2015
>>>>>
>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/2656/
>>>>>
>>>>> but otherwise unless I am misunderstanding, this seems to work for
>>>>> me on
>>>>> Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>
>>>>>
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