Re: lilybuntu confusion

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: lilybuntu confusion


> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:24:24AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>
> > At the moment, I just want to compile the docs.
>
> Not to discourage this whole endeavor, but this can be kind-of
> done already -- you use the last binary rather than compiling
> lilyond from source, but as long as there's no syntax updates, it
> works just fine.  I've done this for years (yes, even during
> GDP!), and Trevor still does this.

Sort of.  I never actually compile the whole documentation.
All I need to do is to check that any edits I make are not
going to break compilation, so all I need is to pass
the single file I've just edited through lilypond-book,
run a simple script to check refs, and then run texi2html
so I can check the formatting and appearance in a browser.
I have a script to do this and it usually works fine.  It's
far quicker than building the whole set of documents - 
typically 10-30 secs depending on the number of examples 
and snippets to be compiled.

> AU 1.2.4 Building the docs without compiling, I belive it is.

I've never tried this, so I can't comment, but it looks
like it needs more than vanilla Windows plus a bash shell.

Trevor