Re: Lilypond winXP installation problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kyösti Karttunen wrote:
> Dear Guys;
>
> Installed Lilypond 2.2.2-1 into my laptop
> (HP vt6200, Win XP Prof, ...)
> according to the www-installation pages for Win,
> and now I seem to have a (path, other ?) problem
>
>
> =================================
> logfile when invoking test2.ly  (=copy of test.ly)
> =================================
> % This file has ledger lines and a slur
> \score { \notes { c4-(  c4-) } }
> =================================
>
>
> lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
> Running lilypond-bin...
> Now processing `test2.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [1]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
>
> paper output to `test2.tex'...
>
>
> Analyzing test2.tex...
> Running ...
> lilypond: error: LaTeX failed on the output file.
> lilypond: error: The error log is as follows:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `titledefs.tex' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: tex)
>
> Enter file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
> <read *>
>
> l.
> LATEX output to `test2.latex'...
> TEX output to `test2.tex'...
> ========
>   (end log)
> ========
>
>
> I tried different system path configurations before
> invoking lily2.tex (or cygwin) without luck.
>
> I have used Latex (Miktex) several years and
> it may have caused something.
> Any suggestions to use both simultaneously?
> Other comments?

I suspect that you have set some environment variable
related to MikTeX that confuses LilyPond.
If you run the command 'printenv' in the Cygwin window and
send the output to the mailing list, I hope that we will be
able to give more detailed hints.

   /Mats