Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

[Tapio Tuovila]

Robert Memering kirjoitti:
> compilation went quite smoothly. 
at least I'm glad about this.
> But it is not much use,
> because none of my old 2.4.x scores work. I used convert-ly, but I
> still have several problems. One score doesn't compile, and the
> other ones have one-line-staves instead of five-line ones (this
> -at least- seems to be a bug of the unstable version because the
> score on page 48 of the 2.5 Manual, pdf version, shows the same
> phenomenon).
>  
Yes, seems that either that score is somehow broken or there is a bug in 
lilypond 2.5.27.

On the other hand, for me the 2.5.27 on SuSE 9.3 has worked fine (as 
have most versions after 2.5.18, by the way), in my opinion it is not at 
all that 'unstable'.

I also tested converting some 2.4.x scores and this mostly went OK. One 
occasion, however, was somehow messed with the encodings (2.4 *.ly files 
being in iso-8859-1 and 2.5 *.ly files in utf-8) and that one produced 
blank pages after the header. But when I tried converting again, this 
also went OK. As I could not reproduce the problem there's not much to 
say about it.
> So, I think that I will wait for a new stable version,
> because I am fed up with spending days on trying to get
> things running.
Or, how about a bug report with short examples? The stable version is 
coming pretty soon, and would be nice if your problem were fixed in it, too.

my best, Tapio