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Subject: Re: Help for Lilypond?
From: Hans Aikema <hans.aikema () aikebah ! net>
Date: 2021-03-24 20:36:22
Message-ID: D80F1EE8-06A7-4B99-89F7-F1F88548A212 () aikebah ! net
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> On 24 Mar 2021, at 20:19, fmaurer <frmaurer99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> Hi there! Is this group where I can get help to get Lilypond up and running?
> I installed LP, opened it and got to the 'Welcome to LilyPond' screen. I followed \
> the instructions and created a copy of the file on the desktop and dragged the file \
> onto the LilyPond icon but no pdf file got created. Instead I got a test.log and a \
> test-tmp-9016347 file on the desktop. I opened the log file and it had the \
> following in it...
> Processing `C:/Users/frmau/Desktop/test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Converting to `/Users/frmau/Desktop/test.pdf'...
>
> Ant idea how to get it going?
> OS: Windows 10
>
> Thanks
> Frank
Frank,
As I saw more of these cries for help with similar issues (and yours clearly wouldn't \
fit in my first assumption for the previous mails that spaces in the file path would \
be the root cause) decided to give it a spin on my windows environment and could \
replicate your symptoms. The 3rd file you see is actually the PostScript file that \
would be input to the process that builds the PDF, but that final step fails without \
any indication of failure.
The issues appears to be related to the working directory for the lilypond shortcut \
(the shared public desktop C:\Users\Public\Desktop, writeable only for \
administrators).
Easiest way out for now: don't drag-and-drop-on-shortcut as instructed by the readme, \
but just double-click on the test.ly file (typically shown on the desktop as simply \
'test' with a quaver icon as Windows by default hides the extension)
That should according to my experimentation yield you a proper test.pdf
Another solution which allows the drag-and-drop workflow to work would be to change \
the working folder of the LilyPond shortcut to your user desktop (assuming your user \
will be the only user using LilyPond
kind regards,
Hans
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dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 24 Mar 2021, at 20:19, fmaurer \
<frmaurer99@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote \
type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div \
class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hi there! Is this group where I can get \
help to get Lilypond up and running?</div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-size:large">I installed LP, opened it and got to the 'Welcome to \
LilyPond' screen. I followed the instructions and created a copy of the file on the \
desktop and dragged the file onto the LilyPond icon but no pdf file got created. \
Instead I got a test.log and a test-tmp-9016347 file on the desktop. I opened \
the log file and it had the following in it...</div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default">Processing \
`C:/Users/frmau/Desktop/<a href="http://test.ly">test.ly</a>'</div><div \
class="gmail_default">Parsing...</div><div class="gmail_default">Interpreting \
music...</div><div class="gmail_default">Preprocessing graphical objects...</div><div \
class="gmail_default">Finding the ideal number of pages...</div><div \
class="gmail_default">Fitting music on 1 page...</div><div \
class="gmail_default">Drawing systems...</div><div class="gmail_default">Converting \
to `/Users/frmau/Desktop/test.pdf'...</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div \
class="gmail_default">Ant idea how to get it going?</div><div \
class="gmail_default">OS: Windows 10</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div \
class="gmail_default">Thanks</div><div \
class="gmail_default">Frank</div></div></div></div> \
</div></blockquote><br><div>Frank,</div><div><br></div><div>As I saw more of these \
cries for help with similar issues (and yours clearly wouldn't fit in my first \
assumption for the previous mails that spaces in the file path would be the root \
cause) decided to give it a spin on my windows environment and could replicate your \
symptoms. The 3rd file you see is actually the PostScript file that would be input to \
the process that builds the PDF, but that final step fails without any indication of \
failure.</div><div><br></div><div>The issues appears to be related to the working \
directory for the lilypond shortcut (the shared public desktop \
C:\Users\Public\Desktop, writeable only for \
administrators).</div><div><br></div><div>Easiest way out for now: don't \
drag-and-drop-on-shortcut as instructed by the readme, but just double-click on the \
test.ly file (typically shown on the desktop as simply 'test' with a quaver icon as \
Windows by default hides the extension)</div><div><br></div><div>That should \
according to my experimentation yield you a proper \
test.pdf </div><div><br></div><div>Another solution which allows the \
drag-and-drop workflow to work would be to change the working folder of the LilyPond \
shortcut to your user desktop (assuming your user will be the only user using \
LilyPond</div><div><br></div><div>kind regards,</div><div>Hans</div></body></html>
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