Re: Midi output vs. paper output

[A. Deubelbeiss]

> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 13:07:50 -0400
> From: Randall J Elzinga <address@hidden>
> Subject: Midi output vs. paper output
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> Also, when I choose to output only midi, the lilypond complains about the 
> lack of a document to make pdf from.  Is this a bug or a feature?

Just a fact of life. Lilypond does not itself generate pdfs:
"lilypond" is a python script that runs first lilypond-bin (the
lilypond program proper), then feeds the resulting file through
some other (format conversion) programs until a pdf is arrived at.
If your input file instructs the lilypond program not to generate
anything printable, then the script can't find the intermediate
file it expects and prints a message to warn you in case you too
were expecting a score.