Re: dvips Problem, Round III

[David Boersma]

> >>> this looks as if something might have crashed. Can you check that
> >>>
> >>>      lilypond test.ly
> >>>
> >>> does produce a .tex file?
> >>
> >> I don't think so. lilypond executes flawlessly, but there are no
> >> output
> >> files produced in that directory, .tex or otherwise.

Hello Will,

It surprises me that your lilypond 'executed flawlessly'. I have lily
1.6.10 (still) on my home pc. I saved the text you posted into a file
test.ly (see attachment) and issued the command

lilypond test.ly

... and I got error messages:

-------------------------------------------
GNU LilyPond 1.6.10
Now processing: `test.ly'
Parsing...
test.ly:3:10: error: parse error, unexpected '/':
filename=/
          home/hanwen/usr/src/savannah/lily/lilypond-1.8/input/
error: Incorrect lilypond version: 1.7.18 (1.3.146, 1.6.10)
error: Consider updating the input with the convert-ly script


test.ly:4:31: warning: Braces don't match:
template/piano.ly printfilename
-------------------------------------------

Since the "filename=" and "template/..." lines probably belonged to the
previous comment lines (sentence in comment was not finished, lines have
no obvious lily purpose) I commented out those lines.

[Maybe they were already joined to the 'options are' line in your copy of
the file and the linesplitting occurred during copypasting and due to
linelength limitations in mail programs; which is why it is a good idea to
send lily sources as attachments instead of copypasted in the body of the
mail]

Then reprocess, and I still get the complaint with the version number:

-------------------------------------------
GNU LilyPond 1.6.10
Now processing: `testfixed.ly'
Parsing...error: Incorrect lilypond version: 1.7.18 (1.3.146, 1.6.10)
error: Consider updating the input with the convert-ly script

-------------------------------------------

... but when I replace the "1.7.18" by "1.6.10" (as suggested already in a
previous mail) it runs fine:

-------------------------------------------
GNU LilyPond 1.6.10
Now processing: `testfixed.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...[2]
Preprocessing elements...
Calculating column positions... [2]
paper output to `testfixed.tex'...

Interpreting music...
MIDI output to `testfixed.midi'...
Track ...
-------------------------------------------

... and I do get a testfixed.tex (and .midi) in the current working
directory.

So, could you please re-check your statement that lily ran 'flawlessly' on
the posted test file, and see what happens if you run lily on the attached
"testfixed.ly"?

Cheers,
David Boersma

> >
> > Ah, huh?
> >
> > Are you sure that your test.ly file contains a \score{} block?
>
> Sure -- it's a .ly from the templates area I pulled to test the
> software:
>
> % Generated automatically by: lilypond-book.py
> % options are
> filename=/home/hanwen/usr/src/savannah/lily/lilypond-1.8/input/
> template/piano.ly printfilename
> \include "paper16.ly"
> \paper  {
>    linewidth = 455.244096\pt
>
>
> }
> \version "1.7.18"
>
> \header {
>    texidoc = "Simple piano music."
> }
>
> upper = \notes\relative c'' {
>    a b c d
> }
>
> lower = \notes\relative c {
>    a2 c
> }
>
> \score {
>    \context PianoStaff <
>      %\time 4/4
>      \context Staff = upper \upper
>      \context Staff = lower <
>        \clef bass
>        \lower
>      >
>    >
>    \paper { }
>    \midi { }
> }
>
>
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test.ly
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testfixed.ly
Description: Text document