Hello folks, I’ll look into those alternative build systems.
Urs, where can I find a MWE of LuaLaTeX use for LilyPond? Didn't find any when I seached the web recently. I have MacTeX 2019 installed. JM > Le 8 déc. 2019 à 00:17, David F. <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On Dec 7, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Jim Duke <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I have a large Lilypond project for several hymnals. The project is >> organized into a subdirectory structure with each hymn in a separate >> directory. For each hymn I produce several products: an 8.5x11 PDF, a 6x9 >> PDF, a set of images formatted for projection at 4x3 and 16x9 aspect ratios, >> and a set of part dominant MP3’s for use in learning the hymns. These >> products are then assembled at a higher level into a comprehensive PDF of >> the hymnal including front material and index; and a package of the slide >> images organized to be compatible with a Slide production product used at my >> church for assembling a song service; as well as assembling metadata files >> to be uploaded into a website I maintain that provides access to these hymns >> and provides simple search capabilities and internet access to these >> products. >> >> I use Make (that old workhorse) to automate the process; but that has some >> distinct limitations. So I was wondering what tools others may be using to >> aid them in building larger Lilypond projects. What, if anything, are you >> using? How well does that work for you? > > Jim, I’m right behind you! I have a collection of just over 100 hymns that > are mostly Spanish language, but about 20 of those also have bilingual > versions. My build system creates proof PDFs, 4x3 and 16x9 slide images and > 4x3 and 16x9 PowerPoint slide decks which get synchronized to a shared > Dropbox folder. I started off with make, but switched to gradle because I > was already using that at work. I’ve got about 400 lines of Kotlin/gradle > code. I haven’t built any hymnals yet, but I plan to. > > So far I feel like I’ve gotten further with gradle than I could have with > make, but lately I’ve found gradle to be more and more annoying. Both make > and gradle struggle with 1-to-many and (especially) many-to-1 type build > tasks. So, for example, taking 8 png files and combining them into one > Powerpoint file is doable in gradle, but you’re really fighting the build > system and incremental builds start to fail in certain cases (like when a > song goes from fitting on 6 slides to taking up 8 slides). There are other > annoyances. > > Just a couple of weeks ago, I came across this blog post: > "The only build system that might someday replace make” > https://apenwarr.ca/log/20101214 <https://apenwarr.ca/log/20101214> > > So I intend to dig in to the design of the redo system and see if it can > match the functionality provided by gradle without the pain and annoyances. > > David >
