Re: difficulties with tuplets

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Hi there!
> 
> After solving the problems with lilypond's installation
> it was working very fine until tuplets came up in a Sonata by
> Brahms. According to the tutorial the command should be:
> 
> "\times 2/3 { d'8 fis' a' }"
> 
> but after invoking "ly2dvi -P Brahms.ly" it says:
> 
> "kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmti8
> mktextfm not found
> ...
> assertion 'source' failed..."
> 
> My questions are: where do I get this file from and in which 
> directory do I have to put it?
> I have been looking for it on miktex.org but didn't find it.
> Who can help me??

MiKTeX can generate this font file on-the-fly but so far
Lilypond doesn't know how to ask MiKTeX of that favour.
However, I might have found a solution. I don't have 
access to a Windows machine with MiKTeX installed here, 
so it's untested.

Save the attached file in the directory
C:\\cygwin\usr\lilypond-xxx\wrappers\

In a Lilypond/Cygwin shell, run the command:
chmod a+x /usr/lilypond-*/wrappers/mktextfm

Please check the directory paths in this file, 
it may differ depending on what Lilypond version
you are using.

Please contact me after you tried, I'm really curious 
about if it will work.

   /Mats

mktextfm
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