Issue 1562 in lilypond: using \sans on Windows gives 'gs' error (2.13.53) fails to compile

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New issue 1562 by brownian.box: using \sans on Windows gives 'gs' error  
(2.13.53) fails to compile
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1562

Reported by James Lowe:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-03/msg00240.html :

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Hello,



---tiny example---



\version "2.13.53"

{ c1^\markup { \sans "word" } }



---snip---



Gives the following error in the log



# -*-compilation-*-
Processing `C:/Users/james/Desktop/test.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `/Users/james/Desktop/test.ps'...
Converting to `/Users/james/Desktop/test.pdf'...
`(gs -q -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=/Users/james/Desktop/test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite
-f/Users/james/Desktop/test.ps)' failed (1)
error: failed files: "C:\\Users\\james\\Desktop\\test.ly"



As soon as i remove \sans it all works and if I use \bold or \italic  
(without
\sans) or I use \roman or \italic things compile as normal.



This obviously doesn't fail on my Mac (as I have been using this version the
last couple of days and am trying to do work across platforms) I haven't  
used
Windows since 2.13.30-something but I don't think I used the \sans switch  
until
recently. So this may have been around for a while.



James
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I know there was some discussion in devel, but can't follow, sorry.