Re: Errors running test.ly

[Mats Bengtsson]

Search the mailing list archives, I'm certain that the problem
has been discussed before. However, first run lilypond again with
the flag
lilypond --verbose test.ly
to get more information on what's up. Especially, check the output
lines related to dvips.
For the paper size, the default in LilyPond is A4, since the main
authors live in Europe. The manual tells you how to change to
letter size or whatever you prefer. However, I don't think that's
the main problem here.

   /Mats

Mark Healey wrote:
> I got it installed on my FC3 box.  Yay.
>
> I created test.ly.
>
> { c'4 e' g' }
>
> and ran lilypond test.ly
>
> address@hidden ~]$ lilypond test.ly
>
> and got this from stdout.
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.4.5
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [1]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
> Layout output to `test.tex'...
> Converting to `test.dvi'...
> Converting to `test.ps'...
> Error invoking `dvips  -t "a4"   -u+ec-mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map -Ppdf 
> test > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
> Converting to `test.pdf'...Error invoking `ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE="a4" 
> test.ps > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
>
> Is the problem the "a4"s?  It looks like something thinks I'm in Europe.
>
> What config file should I check?
>
> TIA

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