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Re: Newbie beyond recovery or definition, it seems
From: |
Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: |
Re: Newbie beyond recovery or definition, it seems |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:52:34 +0100 |
It looks as if you try to view the Lilypond input file
with the postscript viewer GSView.
To process a Lilypond file, run
ly2dvi -P plainchant.ly
This will produce a Postscript file, plainchant.ps that you
can view with GSView.
However, you also have a couple of errors in your example file,
see my comments below.
> I'm experimenting with LilyPond as a way of creating some simple
> melody lines I can kludge into explanations of chant. However, GSview
> keeps spitting up the first .ly file I've created (see below), complaining
> of an undefined term, and I can't find anything in the FAQs or list
> archives to tell me what I've done wrong. Also, I'm blest if I can see
> how to code a key signature such as B-flat; again, I read all over the
> place in the online docs and then took my best guess at it, but I've no
> idea that I'm correct. Elucidation will be welcomed.
>
>
> Displaying non DSC file C:/cygwin/home/Dustpuppy/plainchant.ly
> Unrecoverable error: undefined in \header
>
> --- Begin offending input ---
> \header{
> filename = "plainchant.ly"
> title = "Sarum plain chant"
> composer = "Traditional"
> enteredby = "sjcw"
> copyright = "public domain"
> }
>
> \score {
> \notes {
You probably want to change the preceeding line to
\notes \relative c' {
to get the correct octave.
> \time 4/4
> \clef violin
> \key bes \major
> d--2 [e8 f8] g4 | a--4 [b8 e8] [b,8 e8 d8 c8] |
I don't know what you expect d--2 to do, it's syntactically
incorrect. Maybe you want d2-- (a half note with a tenuto mark)
or d-2 (a note with a fingering instruction).
> b1-\fermata
> \bar"|."
> }
> \paper { }
> }
> --- End offending input ---
> file offset = 0
> gsapi_run_string_continue returns -21
>
>
> (Incidentally, adding Gregorian or Sarum notation support to ver 1.5 would
> be favorite, if it's not slated to go in there already.)
Yes, there has been some work by Juergen Reuter in 1.5.x to introduce
support for Gregorian chants, see
http://lilypond.org/development/Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.html
and recent discussions in the mailing list archives.
/Mats