lilypond-doc-2.4.3-1 using setup.exe 2.457.2.1 fails to display music images

[Morche Matthias]

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


cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 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.


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