I've observed the same behaviour, but tracked it down a little further. lilypond does produce a tex-output, but it does not generate dvi nor ps neither pdf. You should be able to write a tiny shellscript as a wrapper, that generates pdf from the tex-output...
matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For the last couple of versions of lilypond documents in cygwin, I do > not get music images. Lilypond was recently updated to 2.4.3.-1 with > no correction of the problem behavior. > > If there is a better place to report these, please e-mail me. I have > done my best in determine where to post, but explinations use > different vocabulary than "problems with a particular package > downloaded with setup" when describing problem reporting conventions, > so this is just my best guess as to where to report the problem. > > Lilypond docs has a large number of music graphics which are supposed > to display in examples, tutorials, and many other places. > > NONE of these display properly. Instead, the alternative text > "_[image of music]_" is displayed. > > My starting point is to browse > F:\cygwin\usr\share\doc\lilypond-2.4.3-1\index.html which under > WindowsXP is redirected to > file:///F:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/lilypond-2.4.3-1/Documentation/out-www/index.html > > > Drilling down to any tutorial or other documentation showing music > notation displays the "_[image of music]_" text rather than the > appropriate graphic. This behavior is seen in Firfox, Netscape 7.2, > and the current Internet Explorer. > > I have WindowXP Professional which is up to date. > As of today, April 6, 2005, cygwin is completely up to date through > setup.exe 2.457.2.1. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the lastest > version of Lilypond with no change in behavior. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/