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From: | Phil Holmes |
Subject: | Re: "-dshow-available-fonts" vs. UNIX stdout? |
Date: | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:14:09 +0100 |
To: "lily-users" <address@hidden> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:36 AM Subject: Re: "-dshow-available-fonts" vs. UNIX stdout?
On 6/20/12, Ramana Kumar <address@hidden> wrote:probably lilypond isn't writing to stdout. maybe stderr?OK, let me refine the question. If it isn't using stdout, is there a good reason why is it using something else? Or is it just a bug? hjh
As a general rule, Unix orientated programs direct the main output of the program to stdout, and other informative messages to stderr. The main output of lilypond is the pdf, which actually goes to a file. The informative messages (e.g. a list of fonts) continue to adopt the principle of going to stderr.
--Phil Holmes
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