Re: lilypond-book on Mac OS X stopped working.

[Fred Leason]

Thanks, you were right.  

I actually had two problems.
I had some old version of latex in my path before the it found the web2c 7.5.5
installation. How the path changed in a week will remain a mystery.  
I forgot the equals in --output=
Once I fixed those, everything worked fine.

On Mac OS X, the latex route works fine.  
$ dvips -Ppdf -h psalm71.psfonts psalm71.dvi
$ ps2pdf psalm71.ps

or if I click on psalm71.dvi in Finder, then TeXShop opens it and converts it.  

Fred Leason
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On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:54 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

Please make sure that your LaTeX installation works correctly.
For example, you should be able to run the command
latex sample2e
dvips sample2e
to get a Postscript file sample2e.ps with a 3 page document.

I don't understand why you have teTeX installed separately but not
included in your PATH. Since it seems that your teTeX installation
works fine, you could just add it to the PATH so that it's found when
you run lilypond-book as well.

Also, I would recommend to use
lilypond-book --pdf ...
pdflatex ...
instead of the latex + dvips + ps2pdf route. Actually, because of some bugs,
the pdflatex version is the only one that works on Windows.

 /Mats

Fred Leason wrote:
I had the lilypond-book working great. (version 2.10.0-2) Then, all of a sudden,
I started getting the following result.  (also on 2.10.0-2 but you can see that
I since upgraded.)

$lilypond-book psalm71.tex --verbose --output psalm71dir --psfonts
lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.11.13
Reading psalm71.tex...
Invoking `latex /tmp/tmprpX5WO.tex'warning: Could not open char translation file
`cp8bit.tcx'.
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
fmtutil: unknown format type: latex.efmt.
I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
command failed: latex /tmp/tmprpX5WO.tex
Child returned 1

$sudo find / -name "cp8bit.tcx" -print

/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx

so they are right where they usually are.  
I have no .efmt files anywhere on the system.

I may have upgraded some graphics packages since this last worked.  
I tried to load everything to compile lilypond, but I could not get readline or
guile to load.  
Here is info on my latex environment:
$latex --version
e-TeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-2.1
kpathsea version 3.5.2

But if I execute the same command from my teTeX file system, I get:

$pwd
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
$./latex --version
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
kpathsea version 3.5.5


Any help would be appreciated.  I am submitting this as a bug since it worked
fine before.