Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Br. Samuel Springuel" <address@hidden> writes:

> I just downloaded the lilypond 2.19.4 windows binary and I'm not
> seeing any change in the behavior of lilypond-book.
>
> Checking the included python version, and it still appears to be
> 2.4.5. Was this supposed to be upped to 2.6?

No, this is still 2.4.5 which is supposed to be used.

> Here's the contents of my command prompt after using the
> KeyboardInterrupt to stop the apparently hung process:

>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>cd "My Documents\Sext Hymns"
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Sext Hymns>lilypond-book 
>> --latex-pr
>> ogram pdflatex --output "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Sext 
>> Hymns
>> \test-out" --lily-output-dir "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My 
>> Documents\Sext
>> Hymns\test-lily" --verbose test.lytex
>> lilypond-book.py: Setting LilyPond's output to --verbose, implied by 
>> lilypond-bo
>> ok's setting
>> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.19.4
>> Reading test.lytex...
>> Running `pdflatex' on file `c:\docume~1\admin\locals~1\temp\tmpaidjyx.tex' 
>> to de
>> tect default page settings.
>>
>> Executing: pdflatex c:\docume~1\admin\locals~1\temp\tmpaidjyx.tex

Oh, good grief.  What happens when you create a directory C:\tmp, copy
the files to be processed in there, and run lilypond-book on them while
in _that_ directory?

On my GNU/Linux system, I can trigger the following
pdflatex c:\docume~1\admin\locals~1\temp\tmpaidjyx.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `c:docume'.
<to be read again> 
                   \protect 
<*> c:docume~
             1adminlocals~1temptmpaidjyx.tex
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:

which then hangs on an input prompt.

> Adding the --pdf flag changes things a bit:
>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Sext Hymns>lilypond-book 
>> --latex-pr
>> ogram "pdflatex"  --output "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My 
>> Documents\Sext Hy
>> mns\test-out" --lily-output-dir "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My 
>> Documents\Se
>> xt Hymns\test-lily" --verbose --pdf test.lytex
>> Usage: lilypond-book [OPTION]... FILE

Again: what happens when running this in c:\tmp on files placed there?

>> Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document.

This looks like something is throwing the command line into tatters.
Can you please try with simpler command lines, only adding complexity by
and by?  And report at which moment stuff starts breaking?

-- 
David Kastrup