Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

[Andrew Bernard]

The question, when will 2.22 be replaced? Not soon?

I have volunteered to update the instructions, if I am allowed.

I run XYplorer. It's a great file explorer program, (paid). Running that 
as administrator drag and drop works.

But in the process I found out that some links do not show up. I 
searched and found something I did not know and I suspect most people do 
not know. The Windows user desktop is a merged view of two desktop folders:

C:/Users/<user>/Desktop
C:/Users/Public/Desktop

The LilyPond link goes in the Public desktop.

Why Microsoft does this I have no idea.


Andrew


Ben Eisenstein wrote on 5/07/2022 10:19 AM:
> I was finally able to get a PDF. I had to run command shell in 
> administrative mode. Then switch to the directory the test file was 
> in. I was then able to run test.ly.
>
> Thank you for the clue that it was a permissions issue.
>
> I would suggest changing the Windows instructions or at least indicate 
> that it should be run in command shell at the elevated level. But if 
> this is all going to change in the next release, then maybe not worth 
> the effort.
>
> Ben