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.