On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:23:03PM +0200, John Mandereau wrote: > Le lundi 27 juillet 2009 à 13:04 -0700, Patrick McCarty a écrit : > > I just modified Documentation/notation/spacing.itely, and when I ran > > "make doc", the changes did not appear in my local offline-root/ > > documentation. > > > > I needed to touch Documentation/notation.tely for the changes to be > > compiled. But this is an inconvenience. > > > > Can the old behavior be restored, so that when one of the *.itely > > files is modified, "make doc" will notice? > > It can, but I make no warranty on when it will happen exactly. There > are three degrees of makefiles function: > > 1. clean builds complete without errors; > 2. output is built correctly; > 3. in case of non-clean builds, the parts of the output that need to be > rebuilt are effectively rebuilt, and nothing else. > > 2. is currently not satisfied for the docs, and I want to factorize > texinfo and doc-i18n-root templates, so you clearly see the short-term > situation :-P > > As for 3., if my upcoming Texinfo parser is fast enough, it will > possibly be used to determine almost all documentation prerequisites > (dependencies in more common language), which will make all docs editing > more comfortable. It it's too slow, we'll probably have to stick with > partial prerequisites.
Okay, great. I'll be patient then. Thanks again for your hard work. We all very much appreciate it. Regards, -Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
