Re: Ties, distance from barline at a system break

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Robert,

>> Did you download and install the openlilylib framework on your path?
> No, I didn't. Frankly, I had no idea that something like that would be 
> necessary.

\shapeII currently requires it (though I hope one day, \shapeII or similar is 
built in to the main distribution of Lilypond).

> There was no separate log-file but I copied he text from the console (I use 
> TeXShop as the LilyPond editor) and pasted it in the Post Script of this 
> mail. It speaks of a fatal error but nevertheless generates a nice pdf (with 
> no improvement of the tie-distances of course). But I should have noticed the 
> error warnings like " error: unknown escaped string: `\shapeII' " etc.

Yes — that’s the key. And the reason for the empty measure.

> Anyway, I will follow your advice and download and install  the openlilylib 
> framework on my path.

Let us know how it goes!
Kieren.
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