Re: Lyrics Not Working (Font Problem?)

[Mats Bengtsson]

There have been some reports of similar problems on the mailing
list, but I cannot recall having seen any universal solution. Obviously
the installation works for most people.
Anyway, do you have any specific reason to use the Cygwin version?
Otherwise, I would recommend to use the "native" windows versions
available at http://lilypond.org/web/install/.

  /Mats

Richard Furse wrote:

> Hi there - having heard good things about Lilypond and needing to typeset for 
> SATB, I thought I'd give it a go.
>
> However I cannot get lyrics working - using the following code (taken from the 
> lyrics tutorial):
>
>         <<
>         \relative {
>                 r4 c \times 2/3 { f g g }
>                 \times 2/3 { g4( a2) }
>         }
>         \addlyrics { I want to break free }
>         >>
>
> I end up with only the r's and f's visible when viewing the resultant pdf in 
> Acrobat - and the style of the f suggests that this is supposed to be a forte 
> marking. Is Lilypond somehow picking up the wrong font? I found something on 
> the web mentioning a cure for font-related troubles by installing tetex-base, 
> but this doesn't seem to have helped.
>
> Clues appreciated!
>
> I'm running Cygwin on XP and used the standard Cygwin installer for the binary 
> package. Contents of bug.txt below.
>
> Cheers,
>