Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ian Hulin <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > I've always thought it a real shame that the standard set of messages from
> > lilypond left you with a nagging sense of uncertainty whether it had
> > actually completed or not.
> >
> > Typically, you would see this:
> >     
>
> Why don't you alias lilypond to
>
>   (lilypond "$*" && echo Success) || echo Failed
>
> simpler, and more conformant to the unix tradition ("no news is good news").
>   
We already print out a quite extensive log of information during the 
processing (which probably is not conformant to the UNIX tradition), so 
why is it so bad to also tell the user that the PDF was successfully 
produced.

   /Mats

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