Re: Flat symbol in instrument header line?

[Mats Bengtsson]

As is described at the bottom of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles
the title fields can either be specified as ordinary text strings
or using \markup{...}. Take a look at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html#Text-markup
and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands
to learn how to produce the desired instrument name.


   /Mats


Quoting Toby Dylan Hocking <address@hidden>:

> To whom it may concern,
>
> I recently have started using Lilypond to typeset music. Most functions
> seem to be straightforward and intuitive. Thanks for this great piece of
> free software. However, I have one problem, which I suspect is a bug.
>
> I use the following segment in my input file:
>
> \header{
>       title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
>       composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
>       instrument = "Saxophone in E\flat"
> }
>
> I get the following messages at runtime:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.4.5
> Processing `surfinussr-eflat.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [8][16][24][25]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][25]
> Layout output to `surfinussr-eflat.tex'...
> Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.dvi'...
> Error invoking `latex \\nonstopmode \\input surfinussr-eflat.tex >
> /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
> Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.ps'...
> Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.pdf'...
>
> There are two symptoms of the problem:
>
> 1. The "Error invoking..." runtime message
>
> 2. The output .pdf file is produced off center (see attached pdf)
>
> I have figured out the problem is invoking `\flat' in the instrument
> line, because the problem goes away if I change it to `-flat'.
>
> I am running Lilypond 2.4.5 on SunOS 5.8.
>
> It seems that this must be a bug. If not, tell me what I am doing wrong
> and how I can typeset the flat symbol in the instrument header line.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Toby Dylan Hocking
> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/
>