Re: lilypond-book and pdf output

[Graham Percival]

Graeme McKinstry wrote:
> Lilypond 2.11 running under Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Intel)

I just verified the template in the docs on OSX 10.4.9 with Lily 
2.11.22.  I can't remember any bugfixes in lilypond-book in the recent 
past, but just to check anyway, are you using a recent version of lilypond?

> Running lilypond-book ok from command line but it 
> doesn't seem to produce any sensible output.

Have you tried with the exact template in the docs?  When you run 
lilypnod-book you should see something like this:


...normal LaTeX output...
columnsep=10.0pt
(./tmp8SGmeK.aux) )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on tmp8SGmeK.log.
Dissecting...
Writing snippets...
Processing...
Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 2.11.22
Processing `/Users/gperciva/tmp/snippet-map.ly'
Parsing...
.. a few more lilypond commands...



> As I am getting PDF output okay, an alternative is to 
> create a PDF file with no margins, etc., i.e., just the 
> right size to contain the music graphic. Are there 
> any lilypond settings to do this so I can bypass the 
> lilypond-book command which I need to run via the 
> terminal?

There's a section about producing eps files at the end of the 
lilypond-book chapter, but I think it would be easier to find out what's 
happening with lilypond-book.  It also requires you to add command-line 
options to lilypond, so you need the terminal anyway.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham