spectacular ly2dvi failure

[Chris Lipe]

Hello,

I am running Red Hat Linux 7.2, and lilypond version 1.4.11-1.  I'm 
trying to compile a moderately large piece (75 measures of full band 
score), and I get the following error when invoking ly2dvi:

Analyzing default.tex...
Running LaTeX...
error: latex: command exited with value 256
Traceback (innermost last):
 File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 850, in ?
   run_latex (files, outbase, extra_init)
 File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 626, in run_latex
   system (cmd)
 File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 234, in system
   error (msg)
 File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 132, in error
   raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
Exiting ... 

I get a .tex file out of this, but it's never more than the first four or five 
pages or so of the score.  I can compile the woodwinds, the saxes, and the 
brass all separately, and they work beautifully, giving me the entire .ps file 
I want, but when I try to compile the whole score at once, it goes splat.  I 
still get a .tex file, but if I try to turn that into a .dvi, I get only three, 
somtimes four pages of the score.

If I try invoking lilypond instead of ly2dvi, I get a .tex file without too 
much complaint, but when I run tex on that to get a dvi file, I get the 
following output:

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(default.tex (/usr/share/lilypond/tex/lilyponddefs.tex
(/usr/share/lilypond/tex/feta20.tex)
(/usr/share/lilypond/tex/lilypond-plaintex.tex LilyPond Plain TeX settings)
(/usr/share/lilypond/tex/lily-ps-defs.tex) [footer empty])
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [1]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [2]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [3]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [4]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [5]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [6]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [7]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [8]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [9]
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=350001].
\botalign #1->\vbox to 0pt{\vss #1}
                                  
l.82057    }
           %
Output written on default.dvi (9 pages, 507964 bytes).
Transcript written on default.log.

Here I have 9 pages of the score, but that's still a couple pages short (it's 
about 12 pages long).

There are a handful of warnings I get when compiling either way, but there's nothing that's fatal; mostly "putting slur over rest", or some inexplicable complaints about beaming.  Something very odd about this: if I compile the entire score with ly2dvi, it finds a whole bunch of failed bar checks (which I can't verify by looking at the score, because it inevitably stops right before the measure in question), but compiling smaller parts of the score with ly2dvi (either the last 3/4 of the score, full band, or the whole score, one section at a time), or the entire score with lilypond, there are no failed bar checks.  

I'm not sure what's going on here, and I really can't get enough output out of 
ly2dvi to figure it out.  Both the .ly file involved and the log of error 
messages are rather lengthy; I can provide them if necessary.  Does anyone have 
any ideas to help me out?  Thanks.

Chris Lipe



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