Re: problem with lilypond-book (with TeX Live on Win 7 (x64))

[David Kastrup]

der_jo <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm not top posting.
>
> I've just installed Lilypond 2.16.2 but I can't get lilypond-book working
> (I'm working with TeX Live on Win 7 x64). 
>
> lilypond-book --output=out test.tex 

>   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 766,
> in ?
>     main ()
>   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 749,
> in main
>     chunks = do_file (files[0])
>   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 597,
> in do_file
>     global_options.formatter.init_default_snippet_options (source)
>   File "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\book_base.py", line 141, in
> init_default_snippet_options
>     line_width = self.get_line_width (source)
>   File "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\book_latex.py", line 280,
> in get_line_width
>     textwidth = get_latex_textwidth (source, self.global_options)
>   File "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\python\book_latex.py", line 206,
> in get_latex_textwidth
>     returncode = os.system(cmd)
> KeyboardInterrupt

Seems like our version of Python does not cooperate with Windows 7.
This is likely the same problem as
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3510>

Maybe try whether using Powershell (?) to call lilypond-book from helps?

-- 
David Kastrup