Re: lilypond-book in Windows. Was: Why is gs-font-load set to #t in Windows package

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:
>
> > Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> >
> > > - Unless you include dos versions of ps2pdf, the font paths in
> > >  .psfonts (when fs-font-load=#t) should use windows style separators.
> > >  Of course, you could claim that users of lilypond-book should use
> > > cygwin, but in my opinion, that's just a good way to scare Windows
> > > users from even trying LilyPond.
> >
> > My preference is actually scaring people into using pdflatex. PDFLaTeX 
> > is much saner approach than the DVI/DVIPS/PS2PDF route.
>
> Fine with me! However, lilypond-book currently fails in several ways
> in Windows.
>
> - Problem 1: The python package is broken, so lilypond-book fails with:
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pipe'

can you send me the stack trace for that, I can't see where pipes are used.

>  Double quotes seem to work much better and shouldn't cause any problems 
> in  Linux and OSX(?), therefore I proposed a patch in  
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2006-03/msg00182.html
>  but it was never accepted.

can you apply that patch?


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