Re: lilypond-book can hang on Windows 10

[James]

Hello

On 06/02/2021 18:41, Daniel Connors wrote:
> The python script lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows if the user's
> Windows user_id is longer than 8 characters and the user's default Windows
> temporary directory is in C:\Users\<user_id>.  This is because of an old,
> legacy DOS filename convention.  A simple fix is to modify book_latex.py
> and change line #209 to
>      (handle, tmpfile) = tempfile.mkstemp('.tex', dir=".")
> which will create the temporary file used by the script in the current
> directory, rather than in the Windows default location.
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Thanks for the report.

I've opened https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6131 for it.

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regards

James

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