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Re: lilypond-book on windows
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Re: lilypond-book on windows |
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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:00:03 +0000 |
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Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
I'm going to pursue to the docs in more detail now.
http://docs.python.org/release/2.4/lib/node227.html
- Graham
I honestly don't think it's a good use of time pursuing this. To
recap. The failing part is the bit Reinhold added to detect linewidth
- and at the time, this was added solely to tidy up the lilypond
documentation which is never built on windows. As an ugly
side-effect, it imported subprocess, which caused our installation to
fail as missing msvcrt. For a reason I don't understand, we started
shipping msvcrt in the last few releases, so all other things being
equal, windows users could run lilypond-book except for this linewidth
detection. To get the linewidth detection to work, windows users will
need to install texi2pdf - I've only spent 5 minutes looking and can't
find an obvious source. (texi2html can't work - there's no such thing
as page width in html - generally the text fills the browser window).
So - to make it worthwhile doing anything other than commenting out
this code for windows users, we at least should be sure texi2pdf
exists for windows.
The other aspect to this is that lilypond-book hasn't been working on
Windows for months and I believe we had one "complaint". Using TeX on
windows doesn't seem to me to be something most users would do - if I
was writing a book, I'd do it in Word and paste the images from
lilypond in. So it's really not worth prioritising any more.
Trevor and I - both windows users, I believe - agree that the code
should be skipped for windows users - why don't we just do this?
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- Re: lilypond-book on windows, (continued)
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Graham Percival, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Julien Rioux, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Julien Rioux, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Graham Percival, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Werner LEMBERG, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Julien Rioux, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows,
catchall <=
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, David Kastrup, 2012/01/11
Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Phil Holmes, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
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- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Trevor Daniels, 2012/01/11
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, David Kastrup, 2012/01/12
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2012/01/12
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, David Kastrup, 2012/01/12
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, Graham Percival, 2012/01/12
- Re: lilypond-book on windows, David Kastrup, 2012/01/13