Re: Newby questions

[fiëé visuëlle]

Am 2008-09-13 um 16:55 schrieb address@hidden:
> There are some things I don't understand. I invoke the program from  
> the command line:
> lilypond --pdf  filename.ly
> On my WInXP machine, this works fine. The program spits out some  
> status lines, and the
> *.ps and *.pdf files appear. On my Win Vista laptop, when I type the  
> command the version
> line appears ... and I wait. It sits there about 45 or 50 seconds,  
> then (finally) runs normally.
> Does anybody know what's going on hre, and what I can do to fix it?

Maybe it's looking for fonts, but I've no experience with (LilyPond  
on) Windows.

> Here's one more: I have a section like this:
>
> \new Staff = women
>    <<
>    \new Voice =
>    "sopranos" { \voiceOne << \global \sopMusic >> }
> > >
>
>    \new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
>    \new Lyrics = sopranosb { s2 }
>    \new Staff = men
>
>    <<
>      \clef bass
>      \new Voice =
>      "basses" { \voiceTwo <<\global \bassMusic >> }
> > >
>    \context Lyrics = sopranos \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
>    \context Lyrics = sopranosb \lyricsto sopranos \sopWordsb
>
> My question is about the "\new Lyrics"  command. What's the {s1}  
> referring to? It uses
> "sopransob" to find the right set of lyrics. When I had four verses,  
> I used s1, s2, s3, and s4.
> got an error message saying that 3 is not a duration. True, but  
> what's that got to do with
> anything.


I find your code somewhat confusing, don't know how that is supposed  
to work.

The whole syntax for lyrics is:
\lyricsto someVoiceName \new Lyrics \lyricmode{ your ly -- rics }

Perhaps try my attached song sheet template.


Greetlings from Lake Constance
---
fiëé visuëlle
Henning Hraban Ramm
http://www.fiee.net
http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/
https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

song_template.ly
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