Re: lilypond-book won't work for me

[Mats Bengtsson]

Carl Sorensen wrote:
> I've been reviewing the documentation on fret-diagrams (thanks Juergen!)
> and I wanted to make some changes so the LilyPond output looks decent
> (right now, it's quite crowded).
>
> I thought I'd start by creating my own lilypond-book file and getting it
> to look good.  Then, when I had it the way I wanted it, I'd make changes
> to the documentation.
>
> I tried running lilypond-book on a very simple booktest.lytex file:
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \begin{document}
>
> Here is a test of the fret diagrams code when used in lilypond-book.
>
>
> \begin{lilypond}
> \relative {
>   c2 g'2 \times 2/3 { f8 e d } c'2 g4
> }
> \end{lilypond}
> \end{document}
...
> First I get
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexmf parmesan20
> ! I can't find file `parmesan20'.
> <*> ...four; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parmesan20
>                                                    
> then I get
>
> ! I can't find file `lilyponddefs'.
> l.22   \input lilyponddefs
>                            
> Please type another input file name:
>
>
> It seems apparent to me that I have environment variables
> messed up somehow.
>
> address@hidden out]$ env
...
> address@hidden@,{/home/carl/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}}

It looks as if you have built LilyPond yourself and sourced
buildscripts/lilypond-profile.sh instead of the correct one:
buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile.

   /Mats