Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David wrote Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:07 PM
>
>> So it would appear that we still deliver a broken version of
>> LilyPond-book in 2.18.2 since no Windows users are interested in it
>> enough that we would have gotten a report about it in the month that it
>> was available in the developer releases.
>
> I use lilypond-book under Windows, but only for compiling sections
> of the documentation.  It works fine for me, even 2.19.3.  I don't use
> Latex at all.

The latest problems are in the LaTeX part and the problematic
functionality involving TEXINPUTS has not apparently been ported to
Texinfo.

> Well, by "fine" I mean it does what I need.  The opening preamble
> which attempts to determine some line width fails, but it has failed
> in the same way for ages, since Graham's workaround for the problem
> David mentions - 1933.

Just fabulous.  So we have been using a "fix" that causes reliable
failure since 2.16.

> Running lilypond-book
> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.19.3
> Reading 
> C:/Users/Trevor/LilyPond-git/Documentation/contributor/doc-work.itexi...
>
> Running texi2pdf on file
> c:\users\trevor\appdata\local\temp\tmpuyivbf.texi to detect default
> page settings.
>
> 'texi2pdf' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.

That looks like a path problem.

> lilypond-book.py: warning: Unable to auto-detect default settings:

-- 
David Kastrup