Re: squeezed measure

[Mats Bengtsson]

The problem is a limitation of the Cygwin implementation of the
Python scripting language used in the implementation of lilypond-book.
I did an ugly fix in version 2.2, but considered it too ugly to be
included in all future versions. Now it appears that nobody tried
to find a better solution, so maybe we should include it in the
latest development version anyhow.

You can include the fix yourself, even if you are not a programmer.
Just open the file C:\cygwin\bin\lilypond-book in a text editor
(use the same one that you use for your .ly files) and change the
line that says

latex_filter_cmd = 'latex "\\nonstopmode \input /dev/stdin"'

into

latex_filter_cmd = 'cat > lily-tmp.tex; latex "\\nonstopmode \input 
lily-tmp.tex";rm lily-tmp.tex'

(make that a single line)

For the hackers of the list, more information about the problem
can be found in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2004-06/msg00012.html
with followups and my ugly fix can be found in
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lilypond/scripts/lilypond-book.py.diff?r1=1.165.2.1&r2=1.165.2.2&only_with_tag=lilypond_2_2


   /Mats

Dr. Charles Gran wrote:
> When I run a version of the example found at
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/An-example-of-a-musicological-document.html#An-example-of-a-musicological-document
>
> I get a squezzed example for the first staff of music.
>
> I'm using cygwin under Windows XP (2.4.2) and these commands:
> lilypond-book --output=out lilybook.tex
> cd out
> latex lilybook
> dvips -Ppdf -u+lilypond -u+ec-mftrace lilybook
> ps2pdf lilybook.ps
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \begin{document}
>
> Documents for @command{lilypond-book} may freely mix music and text.
> For example,
>
> \begin{lilypond}
> \relative c' {
>   c2 g'2 \times 2/3 { f8 e d } c'2 g4
> }
> \end{lilypond}
>
> Options are put in brackets.
>
> \begin[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]{lilypond}
>   c'4 f16
> \end{lilypond}
>
> Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
> \verb+\lilypondfile+.
>
> %\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{screech-boink.ly}
>
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