Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[David Kastrup]

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

> As suggested, I tried moving the test files into a directory with a
> simple name and got what appear to me to be identical results:
>
>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>cd c:\tmp
>>
>> C:\tmp>lilypond-book test2.lytex
>> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.19.4
>> Reading test2.lytex...
>> Running `latex' on file `c:\docume~1\admin\locals~1\temp\tmpv3qfrb.tex' to 
>> detec
>> t default page settings.

What causes lilypond-book to use such a complex directory name for the
temporary file name?  I rather suspect that the ~ characters in the
"shortened" file name are the problem here.

-- 
David Kastrup