Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows


> "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


Did you read what I wrote?  It's _only_ relevant for compiling the LilyPond 
docs: lilypond-book users do not need automatic line-width detection.

--
Phil Holmes