Please run ly2dvi with the additional flag '--verbose' and send the resulting output to the mailing list.
> Thanks to the folks who attempted to help me compile Lilypond from > source, but I gave up and installed a Mandrake RPM I found at > http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/mandrake/8.1/contrib/RPMS/lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.html >. > I tried to alert Han Wen Nienhuys that the link to the Mandrake RPM on > the Lilypond web page was broken, but my e-mail bounced back, > because apparently my ISP (Earthlink) is on someone's blacklist. If anyone > knows of a more recent Mandrake RPM, I'd be grateful to hear about it. > > Anyhow, I installed Lilypond successfully, and now > I'm trying to compile the following sample file: > \score { > \notes { c'4 e' g' } > } > but I get an error as shown below. Can anyone suggest what to > do about this? This is with Lilypond 1.4.2. > > [bcrowell@localhost Documents]$ ly2dvi -P b.ly > Running LilyPond... > GNU LilyPond 1.4.2 > Now processing: `/home/bcrowell/Documents/b.ly' > Parsing... > Interpreting music...[1] > Preprocessing elements... > Calculating column positions... [2] > paper output to `b.tex'... > > Analyzing b.tex... > Running LaTeX... > error: latex: command exited with value 256 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 786, in ? > run_latex (files, outbase, extra) > File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 607, in run_latex > system (cmd) > File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 313, in system > error (msg) > File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 206, in error > raise _ ("Exiting ... ") > Exiting ... > > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
