Re: next TeX improvement

[Mats Bengtsson]

Nice! One small question, though: How does dvips find this
header file? Does it search in the Kpathsea path variable
TEXPSHEADERS or TEXCONFIG or some other path?

   /Mats


> The file music-drawing-routines.ps is no longer written multiple times
> to the dvi file; instead, I changed the \lilypondspecial macro to emit
> 
>   \special{header=music-drawing-routines.ps}
> 
> once.  This tiny change has various benefits:
> 
>   . The size of lilypond.dvi shrinks from 1997088 bytes to 1038148
>     bytes.
> 
>   . The size of lilypond.ps shrinks from 2271072 to 1318716 bytes.
> 
>   . TeX no longer needs to know where to find
>     music-drawing-routines.ps.
> 
>   . Displaying the dvi and the ps file is faster (at least on my system).
> 
> AFAIK, all dvi-to-ps converters support the `header=' special.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 
> 
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