Re: Lilypond and Windows

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juan Sebastian Arias Valero" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:49 PM
Subject: Lilypond and Windows


> I'm a new user of Lilypond using Windows.
>
> I'm trying to use lilypond--book on the command prompt, but i have some
> problems...
>
> First i'm using the short file bebe.tex (this file stands in C:\Program 
> Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin):
>
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Normal LaTeX text.
>
> \begin{lilypond}
> \relative c'' {
> a4 b c d
> }
> \end{lilypond}
>
> \end{lilypond}
> \end{document}
>
>
> I choose .tex because i don't know how to create .lytex files. Is this 
> bad?. I
> can't do it.
>
>
>
>
> to convert to a tex-compilable file, i put the following code in the 
> command
> prompt:
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin>lilypond-book --output=out --pdf 
> bebe.te
> x
>
>
> Obtaining(in spanish):
>
> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.16.0
> Reading bebe.tex...
> Running `pdflatex' on file 
> `c:\users\toshiba\appdata\local\temp\tmplqlbw0.tex' t
> o detect default page settings.
>
> Dissecting...
> Writing snippets...
> Processing...
> Running lilypond...
> "lilypond" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
> programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.
> command failed: lilypond --formats=ps -dbackend=eps  -I  "."  -I 
>  ".." --formats
>
> eps --pdf -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs-load-fonts  -deps-box-padding=3.000000  
>  -dre
> ad-file-list -dno-strip-output-dir  "C:\Program Files 
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\out
> \snippet-names-326861293.ly"
> Child returned 1
>
>
> \\
>
> This creates a folder 'out' in C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin, 
> but
> without .pdf or .tex files.
>
>
>
>
> Truly, this very rare to me, i'm not so familiar with the programing 
> language...
>
> It will be good for new users, a tutorial showing a example for 
> lilypond-book in
> detail for windows.
>
> Please help me! is very important because i'm writing a paper mixing 
> scientific
> language and musical lenguage.
>
> Thanks, and excuse me for the bad English.
>
> Bogotá, Colombia.

I think lilypond-book cannot find lilypond.exe because it's not in your 
path.  Try this:

path=%path%;C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin

and then running lilypond-book again.

--
Phil Holmes