Re: rephrasing the question

[Rafael H Bordini]

Dear all,

With thanks to Mats Bengtsson, the problem with chord names not 
printing well is solved. I'm reporting to the list, so that if others 
may experience similar problems they know how to sort it out.

Mats's message with the description of the problem is attached. In fact 
I ended up installing the AFM files for CMR (maybe unnecessarily, I'm 
not sure) when I was installing a recent version of "dvipdfm" (so that 
you get true type fonts in PDF files generated from latex documents 
using CMR). What I did just to get a good printout of my lilypond file 
was to remove temporarily those AFM files.

Thanks again for all the help,

Rafael

> Please keep the discussion on the mailing list, for the
> benefit of yourself since you get access to the collected
> expertise on the list and for the benefit of others who experience
> similar problems.
> 
> May it possibly be that your teTeX installation includes AFM metric
> files for the standard Computer Modern font in addition to the default
> TFM metric files? If you don't have a clue, just try what the following
> two commands return:
> kpsewhich cmr10.tfm
> kpsewhich cmr10.afm
> 
> On my system, the first one returns a long path whereas the second one
> doesn't return anything. It is a known problem that Lilypond
> misinterpretes the .afm files, but they are normally not included
> in teTeX. Some people who use TeX Live have experienced this problem,
> though.
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> 
> Rafael H Bordini wrote:
> > Dear Mats,
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for your reply. Amy suggested me to get in touch with you 
> > (the TeX-guru of Lilypond :-) ), but I didn't have your e-mail, so 
> > thanks very much again for replying.
> > 
> > I'm using RedHat 7.3, and yes, an ordinary installation of teTeX. In 
> > fact, I use LaTeX daily for my work.
> > 
> > I just tried compiling input/test/chords.ly here and I get the same 
> > terrible overlapping effect. I tried input/test/lyrics.ly and yes, 
> > there was a lot of mess due to overlapping.
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Rafael
> > 
> 
> 
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