On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:49:48AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 July 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > How can I change the name of the .ly file that
> > mudela-book generate?
>
> There's a good? reason why mudela-book uses `numbers': it's the hash
> of the contents of the .ly file. That way, the name of a file doesn't
> change unless the contents change, which speeds-up the editing-viewing
> cycle.
The directory is filled up with *.ly, *.midi and *.tex files. This
- is a waste of disc space and
- makes it hard to find the midi file of the music that you just changed.
Don't get me wrong: I'm very happy that only the music that changed has
to be processed -- particularly because my computer isn't up to date.
But a unique (descriptive) file name would be nice, too.
Perhaps we should look for another mechanism that fulfills both tasks, e.g.
1. write the .ly only if its content would change
2. generate the .midi and .tex file only if they are older than the .ly file
(I know that this is harder to implement than the current version.)
Thomas
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http://www.thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)
