Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully. (MING TSANG)

[Ian Hulin]

Ming,
First of all see if your lilypond version is OK.
Click on the Windows Menu Button and Select the Run option.  When the
window pops up type in cmd and click OK to start a terminal session.
The prompt should tell you you're in the "My Documents" directory for
your account.
Enter notepad test.ly and press the enter key.

In the notepad editor, type in

\version "2,12.0"
\relative c' { c1 \bar "|."}

Now do lilypond test.ly

Does this produce test.pdf on the directory? (Do
dir test.*
to find out.

If it does, this shows you Lilypond installation is OK.

If it is OK at this stage, fire up jedit and open test.ly.   If
Lilypondtool is installed correctly you should see the pdf output in the
PDF viewer pane.  Now try adding another note or something to test.ly
e.g. change the \relative block to
\relative c' { c1 | d1 \bar "|."}

and compiling in Lilypondtool. If this fails it may mean there is
something wrong with the command Lilypondtool is generating to do the
compilation.

However, now go back to the cmd window where you compiled test.ly, and
change your working directory to the folder with your problem .ly file.


Do this by using the cd command
cd "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/LILY_POND"
now use the following command from the command line
lilypond --verbose more-love-to-thee.ly

What messages do you see?

Btw has your Windows user account got write access to the Administrator
user's Desktop folder?

Also, try doing this in your Jedit session in the Console pane.

cd "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/LILY_POND"

Now try clicking on the LilypondTool compile button in Jedit.  Are the
results any different?

Cheers,

Ian Hulin


On 24/09/10 19:56, MING TSANG wrote:
> Fr. Gordon,
> 
> The jedit version is 4.3.2; lilypond is v2.13.33.  I see the viewer icon. I 
> single click it and it displays nothing. It is because the .pdf file is not 
> created even though the jedit console says it did generate a .pdf file.
> 
> Ming.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Father Gordon Gilbert <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden; Lilypondusers Group <address@hidden>
> Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 1:36:56 PM
> Subject: Re:Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond 
> sucessfully. 
> (MING TSANG)
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have used Lilypondtool both on Windoze, and on Ubuntu, and the toolbar 
> immediately above the open file has little icons for everything you need.  
> One 
> of them is a tiny sheet of paper representing the PDF option.  Do you have 
> that 
> on your version?  If so, simply click that (once not twice) and your PDF 
> should 
> appear in a separate window in jEdit's native PDF viewer.  Especially if your 
> compilation creates a ./ file name as I see it does.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Gordon+
> 
> 
> 
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