Re: Special characters in path using lilypond-book with Texshop engine

[Dona Mommsen]

Hi Colin and Nicola,

today, I had a little bit time do so some tests. I have no solution, since I 
understand nothing of the internal workings of Lilypond or TeXShop, but maybe I 
can give you some leads. To me, it looks as if the issue is on the side of the 
TeXShop engine.

I can run the test file from Nicola's Website with lilypond-book from the 
command line, even if there are special characters in the path:
~/Documents/Data Personal/Flûte-à-bec/Test-Lilypond-book > lilypond-book -o out 
--pdf test-lilypond-book.lytex

in resulting file in the subdirectory out/test-lilypond-book.tex
I had to remove the line invoking the lilypond-book engine:
% !TEX TS-program = LilyPond-Book

Then typesetting with the TeXShop  (standard Latex engine) worked without any 
problem.

(see attached correct output file)

correct-test-lilypond-book.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Then I tried the same file with the lilypond-book TeXShop engine. 

That's what I get when I invoke the lilypond-book engine in TeXShop:
– two subdirectories test-lilypond-book-lily and test-lilypond-book-out
–  test-lilypond-book-lily contains subdirectories for the snippets and two 
files for the snippet map and the snippet list

However, the file
test-lilypond-book-out/test-lilypond-book.tex
has no file extension (.pdf) for each snippet that it wants to include.

Next, I added manually the .pdf file extension for each snippet. For example in:
lily-085adc2a-systems.tex

Original:
\includegraphics{/Users/dona/Documents/Data 
Personal/FluÃÇte-aÃÄ-bec/Test-Lilypond-book/test-lilypond-book-lily/56/lily-085adc2a-1}%
% eof

With .pdf extension:
\includegraphics{/Users/dona/Documents/Data 
Personal/FluÃÇte-aÃÄ-bec/Test-Lilypond-book/test-lilypond-book-lily/56/lily-085adc2a-1.pdf}%
% eof

With this, TexShop is at least able to produce a file, but its a bit messed up, 
as it prints the pathnames for each file (see attached 
scrambled-lilypond-book.pdf). I'm sure that I missed many places to add things, 
yet I hope that this might help Nicola to understand what's going on.

Please note also how the section of the pathname with special character looks 
in each systems.tex: FluÃÇte-aÃÄ-bec/

Nevertheless, the .tex file seems to be able to find the files.


Nicola, I hope these findings will help you debugging the TexShop engine.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers,

Dona

scrambled-lilypond-book.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

On May 3, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Colin Hall wrote:

> 
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Nicola Vitacolonna wrote:
>> 
>> On 2 May 2012, at 11:33 , Dona Mommsen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm using
>>> ??? Lilypond-book (v.2.14.2) with TeXShop (v2.43) on Mac OS X (v10.7.3). 
>>> 
>>> with Nicola Vitacolonna's engine for TexShop
>>> 
>>> http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-engines-texshop
>>> 
>>>> The engine(s) cannot handle special characters in the path names, even 
>>>> when they do not appear in a relative path
>>> [???]
>>> However, I don't now if this is an issue due to lilypond-book or due to the 
>>> TexShop engine.
>> 
>> 
>> My TeXShop engine is a very simple tcsh script that sets some environment 
>> variables then calls the lilypond executable. To confirm that the problem is 
>> lilypond you may run it directly from the Terminal, passing a full or 
>> relative path.
>> 
>> From the results of your tests, however, I think that it is possible to 
>> modify my engine so that it works with arbitrary paths. I???ll try to look 
>> into it during the weekend.
> 
> Thanks for picking that up, Nicola.
> 
> If you find that the problem lies with Lilypond please let us know and the 
> bug-squad deal with it.
> 
> Until then, we'll treat this report as evidence of a limitation of your 
> TexShop engine, rather than a bug in either your engine or Lilypond.
> 
> Cheers,
> Colin.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Colin Hall