Re: Lilypond-book and eps files

[Graham Percival]

Mark Fernandes wrote:
>   I use lilypond a lot and recently have started to want to use lily-pond 
> book. Unfortunately I cannot manage to generate a pdf file as I would like. I 
> manage to generate a dvi file but when I try to convert to a pdf file the 
> notation held in the eps files disappear.

Did you follow all the instructions in the docs?  That sounds like the 
problems I have when I forget about the --psfonts stuff.

> Anyhow, this is the command I'm running :
>
> c:\python24\python -d "c:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py" --
> process="lilypond -b eps -deps-font-include -dno-gs-font-load" -o out --
> psfonts Created-Like-God.latex 

You shouldn't need to use --process.  What is your dvips command?  You 
need to tell dvips to use the fonts created with --psfonts.

I think that the 2.9 docs are a bit more clear on this point, and the 
info about lilypond-book should apply to 2.8.6 as well.

> Also, if you could give me a way around this that would be great, for example 
> can I use another file type other than eps for the notation files? 

You can output in png or ps format if you want to add the notation to 
non-latex programs, but eps is the easiest for latex.

Cheers,
- Graham