Re: Problem with 2.13.30?

[Trevor Daniels]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> > However, I'm now back to my original problem first reported
> > in 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-07/msg00063.html
> >
> > Could someone else on Windows please check they see
> > this problem too.  If so, I'll see if I can narrow it
> > down to a specific release.
> >
> > Trevor
>
> I've never tried the book functions, but can tell you what the 
> problem is. Your report says:
>
> snippet-map--1679029745.ly:4:57: illegal character in escape 
> sequence: #\U
>
>
> Line 4 in the snippet map is
> #(ly:add-file-name-alist '(("3e/lily-0cba8859.ly" . 
> "C:\Users\Trevor\LilyPond-git\Documentation\music-glossary.tely")
>
>
> so it honks on the \ after C:\.
> There's a straight quote of the filename, which in windows uses a 
> backslash: \  (in Unix, I think the directory separator is a 
> forward slash: /). Backslash is also used to denote a control 
> character, so \n is a newline, for example.  So the interpreter is 
> trying to view \U as a control character, which is not, so it 
> barfs.  The normal fix is to make each backslash a double: 
> C:\\Users\\Trevor etc.  Dunno if this is helpful, but that's what 
> I think is happening.

Your explanation is pretty close.  The snippet map in
Windows should contain forward slashes rather than
escaped ones.

Here's what happens now with various releases.

2.13.23 and earlier

Snippet map contains forward slashes, so no problem

2.13.24 - 2.13.29

lilypondbook fails with pipe problem now, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2010-07/msg00060.html
so no snippet map is produced.  (This seems to depend
on past history or my system as 2.13.26 on one occasion
got further and failed with the snippet map containing
backslashes, and IIRC Eluze reported the msvcrt problem
in this release.)

2.13.30

lilypondbook fails with msvcrt problem, fixed in 2.13.31

2.13.31

Snippet map contains backward slashes, so fails

Trevor