Re: lilypond-book question

[James Bailey]

On 06.01.2010, at 23:04, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Quoting James Bailey <address@hidden>:
>
> > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:35:07AM +0100, James Bailey wrote:
> > > > I have a question. Given this input file:
> > > >  \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> > > >  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> > >
> > > What;s the pdftex doing in there?
> >
> > pdflatex always complains if I don't have it there
>
> That's weird! The graphicx package should automatically detect if  
> you are using pdflatex or latex and choose the appropriate driver.  
> Explicitly specifying this option is a bad idea in general. (Note  
> that this has nothing to do with lilypond-book per se).
>
>   /Mats
I've actually never tried it without explicitly stating pdftex as a  
graphicx option. Wonderfully, if I don't need the graphicx package,  
lilypond-book does add pdftex to the file so that it can be processed  
properly. That still doesn't make .pdftex a valid file extension,  
however.