Re: Error in lilypond-book

[Francisco Vila]

2009/6/7 Neil Puttock <address@hidden>:
> 2009/6/5 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:
>
>> This minimal LaTeX file spits the error when I try to process it
>> through lilypond-book:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{tikz}
>> \begin{document}
>> Hello
>> \end{document}
>
> The temporary logfile this generates to determine the textwidth
> includes the following line:
>
> address@hidden@numberofcolumns=\count106
>
> This is erroneously picked up by the regular expression which searches
> for columns=[a number] here:
>
> 1750     m = re.search ('columns=([0-9.]*)', parameter_string)
> 1751     if m:
> 1752         columns = int (m.group (1))
>
> The search is greedy, but it can't read `\count106' and convert it to
> an integer.
>
> The simplest solution would be to change the regexp to the following:
>
> 1750     m = re.search ('columns=([0-9.]+)', parameter_string)
>
> This will ensure the search tries to match at least one digit directly
> after the equal sign.
>
> Alternatively re.match could be used as a less greedy search, but I'm
> not that familiar with lilypond-book and its interaction with LaTeX to
> know whether this is desirable, since it would only match strings
> which begin with `columns'.
>
> Regards,
> Neil

Great! Let's do it, could you send a patch? Forwarding to -devel.

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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