Re: preferred extention for lilypond-book?

[Mats Bengtsson]

As is mentioned in the lilypond-book manual, .lytex is one proposed
extension for LaTeX documents with embedded LilyPond code. Another
possibility that is recognized by lilypond-book is .tex, but in that
case you have to specify a separate output directory to avoid that
the processed file overwrites the input.
You can actually use any extension you wish if you use the --format
option.

   /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:
> What extension should I give to my lilypond-book files?  I can't find 
> one that lilypond-book likes.
>
> I normally use --output for my bigger lilypond-book projects, but what 
> if I want to have a simple lilypond-book project that resides in a 
> single directory?  It's not happy with .tex, .latex, .ly, or .lybook
>
> If there isn't a preferred extention (something like .lybook would nice 
> nice, IMO), then would it be a good idea to make one?
>
> Still using fink 2.3.8
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
> spark-daemonology-net:~/tmp gperciva$ lilypond-book debug.tex
> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.3.8
> lilypond-book: error: Output would overwrite input file; use --output.
> spark-daemonology-net:~/tmp gperciva$ lilypond-book debug.latex
> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.3.8
> lilypond-book: error: cannot determine format for: debug.latex
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 1056, in ?
>     main ()
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 1053, in main
>     do_file (files[0])
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 905, in do_file
>     output_filename = input_base + format2ext[format]
> KeyError: 0
> spark-daemonology-net:~/tmp gperciva$ lilypond-book debug.ly
> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.3.8
> lilypond-book: error: cannot determine format for: debug.ly
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 1056, in ?
>     main ()
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 1053, in main
>     do_file (files[0])
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond-book", line 905, in do_file
>     output_filename = input_base + format2ext[format]
> KeyError: 0
>
>
>
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