Upgrade howto

[Francisco Vila]

2008/12/17 Justin Gregory <address@hidden>:
> I edited the file in emacs, and was using ordinary line endings.  However, I 
> had
> copied/pasted some code from various websites, so perhaps the problem was from
> there.
>
> Upon opening the file in a hex editor, it looks like the bad line endings were
> 0Dh 0Ah.  When they were changed to simply 0Ah, it compiled fine.  The bad 
> line
> endings were interspersed throughout the file, but it looks like they only
> caused errors in GUILE stuff, not plain old lilypond markup.

I didn't have those problems because I compiled the code copypasted
from your message (in a web browser window through a webmail), I
assume that all line endings awkwardnesses went away.

Still, old stable is really old because the latest development release
is almost the new stable now.

Try this howto to upgrade your old stable version:

http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Upgrade_howto

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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