lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

Jean, I like your solution of creating the tmpfile in the current directory. Thank you for your suggestion for using LyLuaTeX. Dan

Re: lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

Dan, On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:47 PM Daniel Connors wrote: > > A simple fix is to add these two lines of code to book_latex.py just before > the temporary file is created, just after line 205: > > if(sys.platform == 'win32'): > tempfile.tempdir = 'C:/Temp' > > If lilypond-book.py is

lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

Back on January 12, 2021, I wrote to this forum about a problem I was having running the example from https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/an-example-of-a-musicological-document for

lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

A simple fix is to add these two lines of code to book_latex.py just before the temporary file is created, just after line 205: if(sys.platform == 'win32'): tempfile.tempdir = 'C:/Temp' If lilypond-book.py is running on a Windows platform, create the temporary file in C:/Temp. Then we

lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

Back on January 12, 2021, I wrote to this forum about a problem I was having running the example from https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/an-example-of-a-musicological-document for embedding Lilypond code inside a LaTeX document. The python script, lilypond-book.py starts up, I get