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Re: a new lilypond build failure
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: a new lilypond build failure |
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Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:48:47 -0700 |
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ok; they were once used for processing the texinfo docs, right?
>
> They are still used for producing the PDF documentatation, so there is
> still a build dependency on tetex. Also, tetex is great for making
> documents with lilypond snippets, but this does not make tetex a
> dependency (now that we dropped it).
Ah, yes, we get that from mftrace anyway, since mftrace depends on
tetex-bin in Debian. :)
>> You say that the TeX backend is no longer supported (!). Why is this?
>
> TeX used to be our easy way out to produce output. In the 2.5 series,
> we managed to use pango to make the half-baken PS backend fully
> operational.
>
> Supporting tex output is a lot of work, and it probably has just one user.
I used to use it a lot. Ah well. :)
Thomas
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, (continued)
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure,
Thomas Bushnell BSG <=
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2005/10/24
- Re: a new lilypond build failure, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/10/24
- lilypond packaging, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/10/23
- Re: lilypond packaging, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/10/23