Re: Lilypond not creating .pdf file

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Monday 22 March 2004 02:02, Lyle Raymond wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2004 9:51 am, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:21, Lyle Raymond wrote:
> > > I've discovered that while in one directory, "lilypond <file.ly>"
> > > automatically creates a pdf file; but while in another, it only
> > > creates a latex file and doesn't go any further.  What's
> > > happening?
> > >
> > > I'm using version 2.1.0, by the way.
> >
> > This is just a guess, but you're not giving much.  :-)
>
> Here's a little more:
>
> All of my LP files are stored in ~/Documents/Lilypond.  In that
> directory, there is a subdirectory for each piece I work on.  My
> current piece, Four Brief Statements for Solo Guitar, is thus
> contained in the directory: ~/Documents/Lilypond/Statements, and
> contains st1.ly.  This is only the second piece I've begun working on
> w/ LP.  The first piece worked fine;  all invocations of lilypond
> produced a .dvi and .pdf file.  But while working on Statements, LP
> only spits out a latex file.  What has changed?
>
> > Do you have any of your output in a separate directory?  If so,
> > it might be safer to use an output directory above the current,
> > by using ./out/ or something like that, rather than using a
> > fixed directory like /temp/out or something like that.
>
> If you are suggesting that there is a default directory for output,
> I'd love to find out how to set it.

I don't see it in lilypond --help, so maybe you can't any more.  I
tried it, and I didn't think it was that great.  Better to use options
in your dircommand to ignore what you don't need to see.

I am not the guru, but try a different subdirectory for each piece.  
What
can it hurt?  daveA

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