Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- 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.

Except for Windows users of lilypond-book.

-- 
David Kastrup