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

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:

> 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.

lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.9.16
Reading a.lytex...
Invoking `latex c:\docume~1\mabe\locals~1\temp\tmpxjpuwh.tex'Traceback 
(most rec
ent call last):
 File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1790, in ?
   main ()
 File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1744, in main
   chunks = do_file (file)
 File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1612, 
in do_fi
le
   set_default_options (source)
 File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 746, 
in set_de
fault_options
   textwidth = get_latex_textwidth (source)
 File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1421, 
in get_l
atex_textwidth
   ly.system ('latex %s' % tmpfile, be_verbose=global_options.verbose)
 File "C:\Program 
Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\lilylib.py",
line 89, in system
   stderr=stdout_setting)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 542, in __init__
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 899, in _execute_child
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pipe'


> >  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?


Sure!

  /Mats