Greetings, Aaron -
I found I had the same problem running Lilypond 2.12 under Ubuntu. It
occurred when I reached a certain number of scores in a single .ly file. I
was able to continue working on the project by commenting out most of the
scores and just working on a few. Actually, the PostScript (.ps) file
compiled, and it was only the .pdf that was not produced. I found that,
although it took much longer, I could still produce the .pdf by waiting
until the .ps file was produced and I got the "cannot allocate memory"
message. Then I ran ps2pdf on the .ps file and got my .pdf with no problem.
Hope this helps,
Ralph
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Aaron Dalton <aa...@daltons.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:19 PM, <aa...@daltons.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I have had no problems whatsoever up until today. Lilypond-book compiles
>>> the first madrigal fine, but when it goes to do a second (order doesn't
>>> seem to matter), I get the above error.
>>>
>>
>> You could try altering the LILYPOND_GC_YIELD environment variable
>> (discussed in the AU or Usage manual; see "command-line usage").
>>
>> Also, start commenting things out until you have the smallest possible
>> file that demonstrates this problem. If you start doing this, you'll
>> probably discovered that you have something weird like
>> \repeat 22 {blah blah}
>> instead of
>> \repeat 2 {blah blah}
>>
>>
>> UItimately, computers are not magic; if it used to work, then look at
>> all the changes you made between versions. You *do* store your thesis
>> in svn or git or something like that, right? :)
>> (failing that, look at the last time you made backups... or just start
>> commenting stuff out)
>>
>>
> Thank you for your help, Graham. I *do* use SVN thankfully. You couldn't
> manage a big project like this without it. At least, I have no idea how all
> these other students do! What is odd to me is I can build all the scores
> fine independently (using just "lilypond"). I've added some new lilypond
> fragments to one of my chapters, so I'm trying to see if I can find a
> problem there (even though that's not where lilypond-book is dying). I'll
> let you know if I find anything.
>
> Thanks again for your time.
> Aaron
>
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
>
>
--
Ralph Palmer
Montague City, MA
USA
palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
