Re: lilypond-book on windows

[Julien Rioux]

On 11/01/2012 9:42 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Julien Rioux
>
> > I would try removing one-by-one the arguments from the
> > subprocess.Popen call, e.g., remove universal_newlines=True, remove
> > shell=True, remove stderr=subprocess.PIPE, etc. one-by-one. See if you
> > get further.
>
> Yes, I tried this earlier. Setting universal_newlines False bypasses the
> failing code.

Good. This points to something we cn fix. The python docs say:
This feature is only available if Python is built with universal newline 
support (the default). Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects 
stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the communicate() method.

> > One problem that exists here for sure for windows is the definition of
> > cmd which include "LC_ALL=C texi2pdf ...". LC_ALL is an environment
> > variable that sets the locale. I think this is here to ensure that the
> > output from texi2pdf is in English and can be parsed easily. Setting
> > environment variables in this way does not work on windows. Instead
> > one might add env=something as an argument to the subprocess.Popen call.
>
> Right. I forgot to mention I'd simply deleted this in the tests I
> reported earlier
> as working.
>
> It's all a bit academic if no one can point me to a Windows implementation
> of texi2pdf or texi2dvi, though.
>
> Trevor

I didn't install it or anything, but the first result with google 
"texinfo for windows" looks legit.

Regards,
Julien