Re: Permission-denied error while using Lilypond 2.12 with MikTeX

[Ambareesh Pandit]

Thank you, Phil and Mats, for your responses.  It turns out you are correct; the error is from having the pdf file open within MikTeX's pdf reader during recompile.

I chose to use MikTeX because, when I tweak LaTeX(a typesetting language very similar to LilyPond) files, I don't have to close, compile, and reopen the pdf output every time I make a little adjustment to the *.tex file...I can just hit the compile/run button in MikTeX while the pdf is open and the changes will show up in the pdf.  It looks like the LilyPondTool for jEdit does the same thing, so, I will use jEdit instead.

Thank you for the help.

Ambareesh Pandit

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

Quoting Ambareesh Pandit <address@hidden>:

I am attempting to use LilyPond in Windows XP with MikTeX but am getting the
following error:

C:/Program
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:115:15: In
procedure delete-file in _expression_ (delete-file pdf-name):

This looks as if you already have the PDF file open in Acrobat. Unfortunately, you have to close the file in Acrobat before you can rerun LilyPond to update the file. It this is the problem, then it has nothing to do with MikTeX.

  /Mats

C:/Program
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:115:15:
Permission denied


Below are the steps I took within MikTeX to get to this point.

1. Edit -> Preferences -> Typesetting tab

2. Clicked "+" within the "Path for TeX and related Programs" section.

3. Navigated LilyPond installation's bin directory and hit ok.

4. Clicked "+" within "Processing Tools" section.

5. Added values below to text fields and hit ok.


Name: LilyPond

Program: lilypond.exe

Arguments: $fullname


After this I open my *.ly file, select "LilyPond" in the dropdown box next
to the Play button in MikTeX, and get the error I have pasted above.  Has
anyone been able to successfully use LilyPond in MikTeX?  Does anyone know
what the message above means or how to get around it?


Thank you.


Ambareesh Pandit