I think you have described the problem and the solution quite well
already. Dvipdfm will not work on any LilyPond generated file since
it doesn't understand the embedded postscript code used for slurs,
and several other objects in the output.
You can and should use ps2pdf (or Acrobat Distiller if y
Hi,
I am just stating to use lilypond on a Debian Sarge system. Fresh
install of lilypond in the past few days. I have been inserting small
sections on music in LaTeX files and using 'lilypond-book --outdir=/tmp
file.tex && cd /tmp && latex file.latex && dvips -Ppdf -u +lilypond.map
file.dvi &&