problems with lilypond book after upgrading to 2.2.2

[Ben Crowell]

I recently upgraded to lilypond 2.2.2 from 2.0, and am having lots and lots
of problems with recompiling a book I wrote using lilypond-book
(http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html). I'd appreciate
any help from people on the list with getting it working again.

I had been using the following script (in a makefile) to compile the book:
        lilypond-book --default-music-fontsize=16 --include=melodies sight.tex
        latex sight.latex
        makeindex sight.idx
        latex sight.latex
        dvips -q -Ppdf -u +lilypond.map sight
        gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="sight.pdf" -c 
.setpdfwrite - <sight.ps

Problems:

  1. The first line now gives an error because of the default-music-fontsize 
option; has
  some equivalent mechanism been substituted for this?

  2. The first line used to read sight.tex as input and write sight.latex as 
output. Now
  lilypond-book dies, saying that this would result in overwriting its own 
input file, and
  that I should use the --output option. I've done that, but I'm not clear on 
why the output
  file would now be sight.tex rather than sight.latex...is there something I'm 
not understanding
  here?

  3. I used to use this
    \property Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 999)
  to eliminate bar numbering, but now it causes an error. Is there some 
different mechanism for
  this now?

  5. My book has about 300 short pieces of music in it, of which an example is 
this:
    \begin[filename=temp-x_rh_twinkle.tex,linewidth=170mm,20pt]{lilypond}
    \context RhythmicStaff {
     \time 4/4
     c4 c c c | c c c2 | c4 c c c | c c c2 
     \bar "||"
    }
    \end{lilypond}
  This now generates the following warnings:
    lilypond-book: warning: deprecated ly-option used: 20pt
    lilypond-book: warning: compatibility mode translation: staffsize=20
    lilypond-book: warning: ignoring unknown ly option: 
filename=temp-x_cclef_anonymous_feinsliebchen.tex
    lilypond-book: warning: deprecated ly-option used: linewidth=170mm
    lilypond-book: warning: compatibility mode translation: 
linewidth=170.000000\mm
    lilypond-book: warning: deprecated ly-option used: 20pt
    lilypond-book: warning: compatibility mode translation: staffsize=20

  6. Thinking to eliminate some errors from lilypond itself (as opposed to 
lilypond-book), I
  tried using convert-ly, like this:
    lilypond-book --filter='convert-ly --from=2.0.0' --include=melodies 
--output=out sight.tex
  But this resulted in the following output:
    lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
    Reading sight.tex...
    Dissecting...
    lilypond-book: error: `convert-ly --from=2.0.0' failed (0)
    lilypond-book: error: The error log is as follows:
    convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2

    *** Error code 1

    Stop in /usr/home/bcrowell/Documents/writing/sight.

  7. After doing my best to work around these problems (e.g., by eliminating 
the barNumberVisibility
  stuff temporarily), I get this output:
    [warnings about compatibility and deprecation]
    Processing...Running lilypond-bin...
  At this point, it seems to hang up. A Unix 'ps' command shows this:
    93317  p1  IL+    0:00.00 /bin/sh -ec lilypond-book --include=melodies 
--output=out sight.tex
    93318  p1  IL+    0:10.73 /usr/local/bin/python 
/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book --include=melodies --output=out sight.tex
  But both of these seem to have become zombie processes. Neither one is using 
any cpu.
  About 300 files like lily-1636361959.ly and 300 like lily-1636361959.tex have 
been created in the ./out
  directory, which makes sense, since the book contains about 300 pieces of 
music in it. However, the file
  ./out/sight.tex is empty (or perhaps there is output that would be going to 
it, but has never gotten flushed).

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!