Re: Cannot run Lilypond

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2009-06-04 um 11:06 schrieb Lutz Haseloff:

>> It has GS compiled in (or as a library or the like), but  
>> unfortunately it can't generate PDF snippets, only whole pages.
>
> Not true on my Windows machine. After every run of LP there is a  
> filename-lilypond-1-1.pdf with exactly the same size as the pstopdf  
> generated.

Ok, you're right - a normal LP run (PDF backend) cannot create  
snippets, but the EPS-backend run does - *plus* it converts eps to pdf  
by itself. I didn't know the latter; I guess it was introduced only  
some versions before.

Try to compile the .tmp file with a normal LilyPond call, and you get  
a page-size PDF. The intermediate .ps file is deleted by LilyPond  
itself, but you can see it sometimes flash. LilyPond does the  
conversion to PDF in a second step, AFAIK with its build-in GhostScript.

This is a normal LilyPond run (in German); it mentions the  
intermediate .ps file and the conversion:

hraban$ lilypond test.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.12.2
»test.ly« wird verarbeitet
Analysieren...
Interpretation der Musik...
Vorverarbeitung der grafischen Elemente...
Ideale Seitenanzahl wird gefunden...
Musik wird auf eine Seite angepasst...
Systeme erstellen...
Layout nach »test.ps« ausgeben...
Konvertierung nach »./test.pdf«...


This is the LilyPond run as executed by t-lilypond:

hraban$ lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts - 
ddelete-intermediate-files -o"test" test.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.12.2
»test.ly« wird verarbeitet
Analysieren...
Interpretation der Musik...
Vorverarbeitung der grafischen Elemente...
Ideale Seitenanzahl wird gefunden...
Musik wird auf eine Seite angepasst...
Systeme erstellen...
Layout nach »test-1.eps« ausgeben...
Konvertierung nach »./test-1.pdf«...
Layout nach »test.eps« ausgeben...
Konvertierung nach »./test.pdf«...
.../LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend- 
library.scm:149:21: In procedure delete-file in expression (delete- 
file (string-append base "." ...)):
.../LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend- 
library.scm:149:21: No such file or directory

You see it creates from the one input file two EPS and PDF files each,  
that seem exactly the same - I'll investigate and ask on the LilyPond  
mailing list.
The error message isn't nice either, but it doesn't seem to hurt -  
maybe it's about the useless files, since it mentions "delete-file".



Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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