Re: Question about lilypond-book and windows

[tiM Sportny]

Hi Mats,

I've CCed this e-mail to the user list. Thanks for instructions!!!

> tiM wrote:
>
> > Dear Mats Bengtsson, I'm adressing to you since i found a post on a forum 
> > about lilypond-book. I really have no idea why, but somehow my posts to 
> > various forums on lilypond are blocked from the beginning and all respons 
> > i get when directly adressing to programmers is "please keep discussions 
> > online". If you don't have any time or don't know how to solve my problem, 
> > i can understand. Please reply saying you can't help so i know i don't 
> > have to wait for solutions from your side. I spent hours and hours (as in 
> > days) trying to get a first result with lilypond-book. I have lilypond 
> > version 2.6.4 (newest i can install via the recommended install procedure 
> > for windows on the lilypond site) and miktex 2.4 on windows XP.
> Goto www.lilypond.org and click on Downloads to find packages for the 
> latest stable version, 2.8.5. Where did you look? '

on http://www.lilypond.org/web/install/windows.nl.html

I followed the exact procedures. And as suggested i needed to re-install.
The enclosed test.ly file on the page gives a fine result in pdf.
Opening the test.ps file in GSview gives the error:

// begin error message:
DSC Warning at line 25:
 %%EOF

%%BeginFont: / %%EndFont
The number of Begin and End comments do not match
// end of error message

clicking "ok" two times gives my a very large list of other errors.

And i think that this is the essence of my my lilypond-book problem. So it 
doesn't has directly to do with lilypond-book, cause it just passes on the 
corrupt eps files.


> > When using lilypond-book under cygwin i get a result, but somehow only the 
> > lines of the lilypond environments show with all other symbols like note 
> > heads or clefs missing. It seems like all "musicfonts" are missing. 
> > Lilypond itself gives fine pdf-files but corrupt empty eps files. Since 
> > you've allready had your troubles using lilypond-book. Can you tell me 
> > what i have to do to get results with lilypond-book?
> Are you sure that you followed all the instructions in Sect. "Invoking 
> lilypond-book"?
>
> When you have upgraded to version 2.8.5, see also 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2006-07/msg00051.html
>
>
>    /Mats

now i've installed python via www.python.org on c:\python24 (standard)
included this folder in my PATH system variable.
under windows i had allready installed 2.8.5.

now... running lilypond-book under DOS command shell (twice) gives a .tex 
file that, when compiled, leaves the complete score out. (somehow in windows 
lilypond-book starts with shell output "GNU LilyPond 2.8.5" but lilypond 
itself "GNU LilyPond 2.6.4".
running lilypond-book under cygwin gives a .tex file with still the same 
problem. A score whith stems but no note-head or clefs etc.

probably all my fault, but a ran out of clues what to check. I've passed on 
the .tex file and other files produced by lilypond-book to other friends to 
be texified, they have the same results.

If you want i can attache some error messages.


thanks a lot,

tiM

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