Re: lilypond-book on windows

[Trevor Daniels]

Julien Rioux

> I would try removing one-by-one the arguments from the subprocess.Popen 
> call, e.g., remove universal_newlines=True, remove shell=True, remove 
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE, etc. one-by-one. See if you get further.

Yes, I tried this earlier.  Setting universal_newlines False bypasses the
failing code.

> One problem that exists here for sure for windows is the definition of cmd 
> which include "LC_ALL=C texi2pdf ...". LC_ALL is an environment variable 
> that sets the locale. I think this is here to ensure that the output from 
> texi2pdf is in English and can be parsed easily. Setting environment 
> variables in this way does not work on windows. Instead one might add 
> env=something as an argument to the subprocess.Popen call.

Right. I forgot to mention I'd simply deleted this in the tests I reported 
earlier
as working.

It's all a bit academic if no one can point me to a Windows implementation
of texi2pdf or texi2dvi, though.

Trevor