Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

[Bernard Hurley]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:38 -0500, Michael Haynie wrote:

> The change to \preLilypondExample can be made backward compatible by 
> defining a variable that preLilypondExample can rely on -- it's a bit 
> of a hack, though.  Using a parameter might be worth a little breakage, 
> since there will not likely be a huge number of places to edit.
> 

No it can't be made backward compatible like that, since an optional
parameter has to be declared in the definition of a macro, what
lilypond-book generates is a _call_ to the macro. However (I hadn't
thought of this in my previous post) you can get backward compatibility
by adding another command line option for lilypond-book

> One thing, though: using 2.6.4 (on Mac OS X, at least), lilypond-book 
> seems to insist on parsing the --process arguments, and so complains 
> that -b isn't a valid option.  If a patch is possible against 2.6, that 
> should also be corrected.
> 

That looks like a bug to me. It doesn't happen using 2.6.3 on Debian.
Are you sure you quoted the arguments correctly? Check it again and if
it still doesn't work email the bug list

> I'll be delighted to test the patch.
> 

Thanks, I have been working with 2.7.x, but I don't think lilypond-book
has changed much so I'll see what I can do!

> 
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Bernard Hurley <address@hidden>