Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning

[Graham Percival]

On 28-Jan-06, at 2:59 AM, Alan McConnell wrote:

> I recently did a reinstall of a very ancient Linux system and
> am now running Debian Sarge; and I reinstalled Lilypond from
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> 1.  If I want to upgrade to a Lilypond 2.6.x, will that mean
> I have to get a new guile, and possibly other libs?

Possibly.  Check the INSTALL document to see what version of guile and 
libraries you need, then check your system.  If you install lilypond 
2.6.x from a deb, then Debian should automagically find all the 
required dependencies.

> 3. Mats Bengtsson wrote in a recent E-mail: "Note that version 2.6 and
> later don't know anything about TeX or LaTeX."  I don't know what he
> meant by that; doesn't even today's Lilypond use TeX for its
> engraving? isn't the last stage of the "lilypond -P" command still
> "running dvips . . ."?

I believe that LilyPond 2.6 creates a postscript file directly, then 
calles ps2pdf to produce a pdf.

Cheers,
- Graham