Thank you- good points, RE backups and copyrights.
Similar punishment!
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> 1. (non-bug) lilypond-book & secondary source files (Cameron Crowe)
> 2. Re: (non-bug) lilypond-book & secondary source files
> (David Kastrup)
> 3. copyright date (Cameron Crowe)
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> From: Cameron Crowe cameron.cr...@protonmail.com
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> Just a thought--not a bug.
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> lilypond-book refuses to overwrite a main source file, but happily overwrites
> secondary source files included into the main source file. Irritating if you
> use the .tex extension for included chapters of a musicological document and
> even just accidentally call lilypond-book without specifying a separate
> output dir.
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> "Don't do that." and "Version control!" would be perfectly good responses,
> and I probably have a few other minor (shrug-worth?) points if there is
> interest in hearing them.
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> In any case, I'm hugely fond of LP. Truly, thank you, devs and other
> contributors!
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> - Cam
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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:04:33 +0100
> From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org
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> Subject: Re: (non-bug) lilypond-book & secondary source files
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> Cameron Crowe via bug-lilypond bug-lilypond@gnu.org writes:
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> > Just a thought--not a bug.
> >
> > lilypond-book refuses to overwrite a main source file, but happily
> > overwrites secondary source files included into the main source
> > file. Irritating if you use the .tex extension for included chapters
> > of a musicological document and even just accidentally call
> > lilypond-book without specifying a separate output dir.
> >
> > "Don't do that." and "Version control!" would be perfectly good
> > responses,
>
>
> Version control is not a substitute for backups.
>
> > and I probably have a few other minor (shrug-worth?) points if there
> > is interest in hearing them.
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>
> Just anecdotally: on MSDOS file systems, writing a file whatever.tex.aux
> was equivalent to writing a file whatever.tex and when writing
> \include{something} in a LaTeX file, this caused a file something.aux to
> be created/written.
>
> This made the punishment for writing \include{something.tex} instead of
> the correct \include{something} pretty severe (until MikTeX was made to
> detect this special case and refuse the operation).
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> David Kastrup
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> From: Cameron Crowe cameron.cr...@protonmail.com
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> Subject: copyright date
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> I think the copyright is out of date for versions 2.24 and 2.25
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> GNU LilyPond 2.24.3 (running Guile 2.2)
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> Copyright (c) 1996--2023 by
> Han-Wen Nienhuys han...@xs4all.nl
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> Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org
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> and others.
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.25.13 (running Guile 3.0)
>
> Copyright (c) 1996--2023 by
> Han-Wen Nienhuys han...@xs4all.nl
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> Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org
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> and others.
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