Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows


> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > David wrote Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:07 PM
> >
> > > So it would appear that we still deliver a broken version of
> > > LilyPond-book in 2.18.2 since no Windows users are interested in it
> > > enough that we would have gotten a report about it in the month that it
> > > was available in the developer releases.
> >
> > I use lilypond-book under Windows, but only for compiling sections
> > of the documentation.  It works fine for me, even 2.19.3.  I don't use
> > Latex at all.
>
> The latest problems are in the LaTeX part and the problematic
> functionality involving TEXINPUTS has not apparently been ported to
> Texinfo.
>
> > Well, by "fine" I mean it does what I need.  The opening preamble
> > which attempts to determine some line width fails, but it has failed
> > in the same way for ages, since Graham's workaround for the problem
> > David mentions - 1933.
>
> Just fabulous.  So we have been using a "fix" that causes reliable
> failure since 2.16.

As I said many times on the notes of 1933, the line width detection was put 
in solely to avoid the black bars we used to get in our documentation: it 
had no other purpose.  Given that nobody compiles the final documents on 
windows, the fact that it fails is of no relevance whatever.

> --
> David Kastrup

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Phil Holmes