OS: W2k Pro SP4 I installed cygwin using the instructions on the lilypond website, but the lilypond examples don't produce PDF files
Can anyone help? Thanks, Adrian > Thanks, Mats, for your speedy reply. > > It's that Latex appears to be having indigestion on Lilypond's output..... > The file outputs (no PDF generated) are attached and the bash shell output is as > follows:- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/lilypond > $ cp /usr/share/doc/lilypond-1.8.1-12/input/example-1.ly . > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/lilypond > $ ls > bug.txt example-1.ly test.latex test.ly test.tex > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/lilypond > $ ly2dvi -p example-1.ly > ly2dvi (GNU LilyPond) 1.8.1 > Running usr...GNU LilyPond 1.8.1 > Now processing: `example-1.ly' > Parsing... > Interpreting music...[3] > Preprocessing graphical objects... > Calculating line breaks... > paper output to `example-1.tex'... > > Interpreting music... > MIDI output to `example-1.midi'... > Track ... > > Analyzing example-1.tex... > Running latex...Syntax error: word unexpected > > ly2dvi: error: LaTeX failed on the output file. > ly2dvi: error: The error log is as follows: > > LATEX output to `example-1.latex'... > MIDI output to `example-1.midi'... > TEX output to `example-1.tex'... > //* Response from Mats I'm really puzzled, cannot recall having seen that error message before. The question is if it comes from LaTeX. Try to run the command latex example-1.latex (I tried it here on the files you attached and it works just fine.) /Mats //* Output from latex in response to Mats Bengtsson $ latex example-1.latex This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) %&-line parsing enabled. (./example-1.latex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/geometry.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/geometry.cfg)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/lilypond/1.8.1/tex/titledefs.tex (/usr/share/lilypond/1.8.1/tex/feta20.tex)) LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s): [compat2]. No file example-1.aux. (./example-1.tex (/usr/share/lilypond/1.8.1/tex/lilyponddefs.tex (/usr/share/lilypond/1.8.1/tex/feta20.tex) (/usr/share/lilypond/1.8.1/tex/lily-ps-defs.tex))) Overfull \vbox (0.7539pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [1] (./example-1.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on example-1.dvi (1 page, 1172 bytes). Transcript written on example-1.log. _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user