Re: eps file

[David Wright]

Europe might be asleep by now, so:

On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 19:15:19 (-0400), ming tsang wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
> Thank you for the info. But I have a hard time entering the file path name.
> When I ran lilypond through frescobaldi v2.3.3, I got an error - see at the
> end of the lily code. I have no idea what "ice-9 format" is.
> Shalom,
> Ming.
> 
> \version "2.23.3"
> \markup {
>   \general-align #Y #DOWN {
>     \epsfile #X #20
>     #"c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps"

                ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ a "long" filename, and containing a space

> %    \epsfile #Y #20 #"Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps"
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> E <2>rror message .....................................
> 
> Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.23.3 [Untitled]...
> 
> Processing
> `C:/Users/YMINGT~1/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-o_s4xv8r/tmps19cuu1_/document.ly'

            ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ a Microsoft hack to make a short filename without a space

> Parsing...
> 
> C:/Users/YMINGT~1/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-o_s4xv8r/tmps19cuu1_/document.ly:7:6
> <0>: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here
> 
> #
> 
> "c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps"
> 
> C:/LilyPond_2-23-3/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:973:21 <1>:
> In procedure simple-format in expression (ly:parse-file file-name):
> 
> C:/LilyPond_2-23-3/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:973:21 <2>:
> FORMAT: Unsupported format option ~1 - use (ice-9 format) instead
> 
> Exited with return code 1.

Would it be practical to change your working directory to
c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\, or wherever, before you run
LilyPond, so that you can use bare filenames, rather than absolute
paths? Doing that /might/ avoid these (frequent and long-standing)
problems you have with filenames on your system.

>From what gets mangled, I assume the space is causing more of a
problem than the length of the filenames.

BTW I can't help if the problem lies with Frescobaldi.

Cheers,
David.