Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-25 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello David, great that things worked out. Instead of putting a script at /usr/bin/lilypond which calls ~/bin/lilypond you could also create a symlink. Also modern Linux setups should have ~/.local/bin in PATH by default, so if the reason is only to be able to call `lilypond` without path

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-25 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 24/03/2024 21:26, David Sumbler wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 21:55 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: [snip] What I don't understand is why or how it always used to work, but I suppose there's no point in worrying about that. I have lost count of the number of projects over the past

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 21:55 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi David, > > David Sumbler schrieb am So., 24. März 2024, > 21:29: > > I am running xubuntu  22.04.  When I last used Lilypond (November > > 2023) I was probably running a recent version of Ubuntu Unity.  But > > my /home folder has

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi David, David Sumbler schrieb am So., 24. März 2024, 21:29: > I am running xubuntu 22.04. When I last used Lilypond (November 2023) I > was probably running a recent version of Ubuntu Unity. But my /home folder > has not changed significantly, and Lilypond 2.24.1, downloaded from >

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread David Sumbler
I am running xubuntu  22.04.  When I last used Lilypond (November 2023) I was probably running a recent version of Ubuntu Unity.  But my /home folder has not changed significantly, and Lilypond 2.24.1, downloaded from lilypond.org, is installed there. I don't quite understand the question about

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 17:14, David Sumbler wrote: > > I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have currently got v.2.24.1 > > I started a new, very small, project today, but I can't compile anything. Thinking I must have forgotten even the basics of writing Lilypond files, I tried a few of

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello David, it apears your Lilypond installation has some issue. What OS are you currently on? How did you install Lilypond? If you are using some Linux distribution there might be a version mismatch between the libraries the binaries have been compiled against and the ones installed on your

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread David Sumbler
I include my code below - this is as far as I got before discovering the problem.  Jakob, I don't seeing the code will help: if there were a significant problem with it, then normally Lilypond would report warnings and errors upon compilation.  But as I said, it reports nothing! And yes, Hans, I

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Hans Aikema
> On 24 Mar 2024, at 17:13, David Sumbler wrote: > > I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have currently got v.2.24.1 > > I started a new, very small, project today, but I can't compile anything. > Thinking I must have forgotten even the basics of writing Lilypond files, I > tried a

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Jakob Pedersen
Hi David, It might be beneficial if you would share your lilypond file, or shortened version of it, so that the smart folks here can look at it and point you in the right direction. Best wishes, Jakob On 24.03.2024 17.13, David Sumbler wrote: I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have

Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread David Sumbler
I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have currently got v.2.24.1 I started a new, very small, project today, but I can't compile anything.  Thinking I must have forgotten even the basics of writing Lilypond files, I tried a few of my previous project files which I have successfully compiled