Re: [Help-gnu-music] I fixed the .mf problem!

[Mats Bengtsson]

> The problem is that the directory texmf/ from the tetex-extra package is
> located in /usr/lib on
> my debian slink, instead of /usr/share. Is it a common problem? I just
> created a symbolic link and it worked.

Yes, the file tree is different in different versions of teTeX
and in different distributions. An alternative to the link is
to set the environment variable MFPLAIN_MP to point to the file.

Han-Wen and Jan: This is only documented in aclocal.m4, why not
add a line in INSTALL.txt, it's getting a FAQ.

>  Another problem: I had to install the python-misc package to have the
> module find.py (maybe you could write this in the Install file
> somewhere?)

The division into packages is different for every Linux distribution
and differ from version to version of a distribution, therefore it's
almost impossible to specify all these dependencies in the docs.

>  So I compiled it and installed it, and now, at long last, it IS
> working... Wow, that was hard!
> 
> Well, actually, it's not quite working yet, because I can compile a file
> .ly to a .tex file, but when I run tex, it greets me with an error,
> always the same "\input lilyponddefs", file not found. What is that
> file? Oh, I'm sorry, a little more help, please! (it works, though, when
> I try directly "ly2dvi file.ly" instead of "lilypond -o file file.ly"
> (and it's very beautiful...) . Strange, isn't it?)

Since Lilypond doesn't install it's own tex header files in
the texmf/ tree, TeX will not find them unless you set the
variable TEXINPUTS. It's all described in INSTALL.txt.

      /Mats