Re: Lilypond missing note head files

[Mats Bengtsson]

It's certainly not a FAQ, I cannot recall having seen this very problem
before. However, you can get much more help from the mailing list if you
- Tell what operating system you use
- Tell how you installed LilyPond (from some precompiled package or by
  compiling it yourself)
- Include the output of lilypond --verbose test.ly

By the way, you should expect problems (but not the problems shown
below) if your gs version is too old.

   /Mats

Stephen Torri wrote:
> I am setting up my computer to use lilypond. So far I have read the
> overview of lilypond from the web site and got the stable version
> (2.6.5) installed with only one warning. The warning was asking for gs
> to be 8.0+ and I have 7.1.
>
> Well I have a simple file I am using to start out:
>
>         \version "2.6.0"
>         melody = \relative c' {
>             \clef treble
>             \key c \major
>             \time 4/4
>         
>             d4 a e b
>         }
>         
>         \score {
>                 \new Staff \melody
>                 \layout { }
>                 \midi { \tempo 4=60 }
>         }
>
> Yet when I tell lilypond to process it I get warnings like:
>
>         address@hidden ~ $ lilypond test.ly
>         GNU LilyPond 2.6.5
>         Processing `test.ly'
>         Parsing...
>         Interpreting music... [1]
>         Preprocessing graphical objects...
>         test.ly:7:11: warning: note head `noteheads.s2' not found
>             d4 a e
>                    b
>         programming error: Infinity or NaN encountered
>         test.ly:7:9: warning: note head `noteheads.s2' not found
>             d4 a
>                  e b
>         programming error: Infinity or NaN encountered
>         test.ly:7:7: warning: note head `noteheads.s2' not found
>             d4
>                a e b
>
> A search on google did not lead me to a page that told me how to fix
> this warning. The resulting pdf has 4/4 on a sheet with the note lines
> but no notes present. I am sure this is a silly new user problem so I am
> open to advice or being pointed to a FAQ.
>
> Stephen
>
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