Re: lilypond-book question

[James Bailey]

On 05.01.2010, at 10:38, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:35:07AM +0100, James Bailey wrote:
> > I have a question. Given this input file:
> >  \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> >  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
>
> What;s the pdftex doing in there?

pdflatex always complains if I don't have it there

> >  \begin{document}
> >  \begin{lilypond}
> >  \relative c' { c2 a'2 \times 2/3 { f8 e d } c'2 g4 }
> >  \end{lilypond}
> >  \end{document}
> >
> > Secondly, if the extension is changed to .lytex,
>
> That's what it's supposed to be.

Then the documentation is wrong
> > LaTeX complains that
> > I'm asking to use pdf mode, but dvi mode was detected
> > ! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
>
> > This leads me to believe that there is some error in the lilypond- 
> > book
> > that precludes use of pdflatex. Am I missing something?
>
> Start from the template in the docs.  Does the command in the docs
> work with the template in the docs?  It definitely worked for me
> at one point in time.
>
> If the docs-way of doing it works, then figure out what's
> different in your example.  If the docs-way doesn't work, then let
> us know.

Of course all of this was just taken from the docs, which is why I  
was so confused. I've sent another email explaining the solution.