X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffaq.yo;h=ea2e567fe0c430947c2246e0aa61bdeb7626657d;hb=9e90e53ba3a141e1e4f4a32ccaa7b36b0daecf1a;hp=327a83eb5ca7eaf9f264b8e22f34ae137582e990;hpb=35b22a3ae58b3b8694ce65e374041643ff124b70;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/Documentation/faq.yo b/Documentation/faq.yo index 327a83eb5c..ea2e567fe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/faq.yo +++ b/Documentation/faq.yo @@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ It does em(not) work with windows 3.x; you need Windows-NT (95/98?). This is not a recommendation, however. We recommend you use Unix, in particular, use GNU/Linux. For further information see file(README-W32). +question(Where is guile-config) + +RedHat RPMS don't include guile-config. You need guile-config as it +was produced during the RPM build run. Build the RPM from source +(file(.src.rpm)), and use the guile-config that is in +file(/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/guile-1.3/guile-config/). + + question(I get all kinds of errors while compiling file(parser.cc)) LilyPond uses features of bison version 1.25. Please confirm that @@ -284,7 +292,7 @@ lurl(http://harmonia.scar.utoronto.ca). There is also a GUI package RoseGarden that could be extended to output mudela. If you want to work on this, please send e-mail to the mailing list -email(gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org). +email(gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org). question(I want to implement XXXX! How should I do this?) @@ -353,16 +361,16 @@ LilyPond already compiles into a different directory ((the different directory is called out/, there is one in every source directory). make distclean essentially reduces to file(rm -f out/*) in every directory - question(gdb crashes when I debug!) Upgrade to 4.17. -question(Why do I need g++ >= 2.7?) +question(Why do I need g++ >= 2.8 / EGCS-1.1 ?) -By using g++, GNU LilyPond is portable to all platforms which support -g++ (there are quite a few). Not having to support other compilers -saves us a em(lot) of trouble. +Supporting more compilers than EGCS/G++ 2.8 is unlikely to make +LilyPond run on more platforms. It would give us an enormous headache +in detecting and catering for every variant of every compiler: not +having to support other compilers saves us a em(lot) of trouble. sect(Running) @@ -381,7 +389,32 @@ wrong symbols and dvi-checksum errors!) We obviously mucked with the fonts in the upgrade. Remove em(all) previous fonts, including the file(.pk) and file(.tfm) fonts in file(/var/lib/texmf). A script automating this has been included, see -file(bin/clean-fonts.sh). +file(buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh). + + +question(How does PS output work?) + +itemize( +it() Generate the PostScript Type-3 fonts. In the file(mf/) +subdirectory, issue: +verb( + make pfa +) +it() Run lilypond with option tt(-f ps): +verb( + lilypond -fps foo.ly +) +it() To view the file(.ps) output with GhostView, set GS_FONTPATH to the +directory containing the pfas. In the source tree, this is file(mf/out/), +i.e. do something like: +verb( + export GS_FONTPATH=$HOME/usr/src/lilypond/mf/out + gv foo.ps & +) +) + +Direct PS output is still experimental. For creating nice looking ps +output, use TeX() and code(dvips). question(The beams and slurs are gone if use the XDvi magnifying glass!?) @@ -398,7 +431,7 @@ verb( \melodic { c4 c g g } \paper {} \midi { - \output "myfile.mid"; + output = "myfile.midi"; \tempo 4=70; } } @@ -413,6 +446,82 @@ The MIDI output was originally put in as a proof that MIDI could be done, and as a method of proof"reading" the input. The MIDI support is by no means finished. Patches appreciated. + +sect(Copyright) + +question(How does copyright for sheet music work? Can I enter and +spread my newly bought Bach urtext?) + +Silas S. Brown : + +There are several aspects to sheet music copyright: + +1. The music itself - copyright for the composer's life plus 70 years (so +not applicable to Bach). + +2. If the music is an arrangement, then the arranger holds copyright on +that arrangement. However, you can produce your own arrangement using +that arrangement as a reference point. Obviously your arrangement must be +sufficently different to be called your own arrangement - you need to do +more than change one note! + +3. In some countries, the same applies for editions. This could be +relevant to the Bach example. If a modern person has edited the music, +then they hold the copyright on the edition. This does not stop you from +removing the editorial features - remove all editorial slurs, phrasemarks, +ornaments etc and only leave those that you know to be original. You can +then add some of your own if you want to be your own editor. + +4. If there are lyrics, then the lyricist also holds copyright. This +does not stop you from using the music without the lyrics if it is +otherwise out of copyright. + +5. The copyright of the printed page is held by the publisher for 30 +years after printing (25 in some countries). This stops you from +photocopying (unless it's "fair use" eg. you're partially sighted and need +to enlarge the music) or otherwise reproducing the typesetting that is +used on it. But the copyright is only held over the typesetting work, not +the music itself. Since Mudela specifies the notes, independently of any +typesetting work that went into your reference copy, you are not +duplicating any of the publisher's work. + +6. If you want to violate copyright, there are two main cases where you +may do so: fair use, and with permission. The former is rather fuzzily +defined, but it includes such things as including small extracts of a +score in a critique, and making a large print or Braille copy for a blind +or partially-sighted performer (many people argue that in this case it +should always be kept with the original copy and/or destroyed after it is +no longer needed). The latter is obvious: You can always write to the +composer, arranger, editor, lyricist or publisher in question and ask if +you can do whatever it is you're trying to do. Some will respond more +readily than others, but anything that they say will override any copying +restrictions imposed on you. + + +References - best one I know is the UK-based Performing Right Society, +lurl(http://www.prs.co.uk/) (especially "membership") and their links to other +international equivalents. + + + +Juergen Reuter : + +[More information can be had at: ] + +lurl(http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/) +(USA copyright law) + +lurl(http://fairuse.stanford.edu/) +(meta site about copyright with many links to other resources) + +lurl(http://host.mpa.org/crc.html) +(copyright from the viewpoint of the USA music publishers' association) + +lurl(http://www.wipo.int) +(World Intellectual Property Organization (a UNO agency); with +information about international copyright) + + sect(Windows32) question(I downloaded the windows32 port, and it doesn't match the website!)