Issue 2209 in lilypond: lilypond-book creates uncompilable latex files (windows)

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Status: Accepted
Owner: address@hidden
Labels: Type-Scripts OpSys-Windows

New issue 2209 by address@hidden: lilypond-book creates uncompilable  
latex files (windows)
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2209

I get two errors while trying to compile a latex file created by  
lilypond-book under windows. See Issue 1815 for a test file and  
instruction. Once the .tex file is created try
pdflatex lilypond-bug.tex

The first error you get is:

> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.22 \input 7a\lily
>                     -66ef7aa2-systems.tex
> ?

because in the .tex file backslashes introduce a latex macro; for a path  
separator, use forward slashes instead.

Since Latex asks for a filename I can enter the correct one and proceed  
further:

> ! I can't find file `7a-66ef7aa2-systems.tex'.
> l.22 \input 7a\lily-66ef7aa2-systems.tex

> Please type another input file name: 7a/lily-66ef7aa2-systems.tex
> ("C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\test\7a/lily-66ef7aa2-systems.tex"

Then the second error happens:

> ! LaTeX Error: File `/Program  
> Files/LilyPond/usr/test/ly-neu/7a/lily-66ef7aa2-1
> ' not found.

> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>   ...

> l.1 ...ilyPond/usr/test/ly-neu/7a/lily-66ef7aa2-1}
>                                                    %
> ?

Here the path misses the drive letter C:, but I think the generated .tex  
file should be using a relative path anyway.