Re: PDF can't be made

2003-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks Mats for the advice on Unix (BASH). I must try and learn BASH, I'd love to be able to set up a script file to update my 90 odd lily files for the new version number, and to change those dummy " \transpose c' " 's to " \transpose c' c' " I used to do this sort of thing with DOS batch files

Re: PDF can't be made

2003-08-29 Thread Warren Stickney
Thanks for the replies Jan and Mats, very much appreciated. Have got Lily running now by: Installing 1.8.0 on "Curr" from "cygwin-get-software," then updating with "Exp" option from the same site. With the overwrite bash.exe to sh.exe, ly2dvi works OK, but I'm getting "I can't find lilyponddefs.

Re: pdf can't be made

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Warren Stickney writes: > I'm getting the same > > "Running Latex...cannot create/dev/stderr: directory" > > error from my downloaded Lily 1.8.0 (cygwin). Could you try and reinstall, 1.8.1 has been uploaded and should fix this. > Comparing my files with those you mention 26 Aug, Mats, > (albeit

Re: pdf can't be made

2003-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you saw Jan's answer, http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/msg00390.html If you are not that familiar to UNIX, you could for example do: - Start the Cygwin command window - Run the command: "cp /bin/bash /bin/sh" - Close the command window with "exit" Now, LilyPond should

Re: pdf can't be made

2003-08-28 Thread Warren Stickney
I'm getting the same "Running Latex...cannot create/dev/stderr: directory" error from my downloaded Lily 1.8.0 (cygwin). Comparing my files with those you mention 26 Aug, Mats, (albeit that those files were for Heinz Wallisch's 1.6.11 installation) the following are missing on mine: base-files

Re: pdf can't be made..?

2003-08-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thorkil Wolvendans writes: > I just installed Lilypond 1.8 (cygwin edition), and tested 'Petite > Ouverture a Danser' with it (example file on the website). Now, it > seems to work allright, but it doesn't make a pdf file. Could it have > something to do with Latex? When installing from the cygwin

Re: pdf can't be made..?

2003-08-27 Thread Frédéric Bron
Try reading this, it worked for me: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/msg00129.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/msg00202.html Frédéric Thorkil Wolvendans wrote: Hello everyone! I just installed Lilypond 1.8 (cygwin edition), and tested 'Petite Ouve

pdf can't be made..?

2003-08-27 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hello everyone! I just installed Lilypond 1.8 (cygwin edition), and tested 'Petite Ouverture a Danser' with it (example file on the website). Now, it seems to work allright, but it doesn't make a pdf file. Could it have something to do with Latex? When installing from the cygwin setup program, I