Hi All,
I'm trying to understand exactly how lilypond-book works with html
source files. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with 2.11.56.
As suggested in the manual, I've specifed an output directory (
--output=DIR). So let's say my source file is
~/Documents/Composition/Piano/filename.html
and my output directory is
~/Documents/Composition/Piano/Book
What I've found is that the first invocation of lilypond-book on the
source html file works fine, but the next time I run it after making
changes to the sourcefile, I get an error saying "lilypond-book: error:
Output would overwrite input file; use --output."
What I've deduced from this is that lilypond-book must first make a copy
of my source file and put it in the output directory, then use that as
the input file. Is this correct? Because when I remove the html file
from the output directory and run lilypond-book on filename.html (in the
directory above the output directory), it runs its course and creates
the desired output. My question is this: shouldn't the "input file"
really be the one that's NOT in the output directory? In other words,
why doesn't lilypond-book take the command-line argument as the input
file instead of the html file that it has copied (apparently) to the
output directory?
I've made a workaround to the problem by adding a line to my lilybook
script saying first to remove the html file from the output directory,
but it seems to me that the program should use the argument of the
lilypond-book command as the input file and overwrite the html file
inside the output directory instead of returning errors saying that
output would overwrite the input file.
Can anyone offer insight? This sort of thing never happens when I'm
using lilypond-book on the .itely for the GDP. Is it a bug, or is it
designed this way to avoid deleting files inadvertently?
Best,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
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