[email protected] wrote: > >> With the possible exception of the font commands for markup or >> things like the current date and time, I don't think that lilypond >> output should depend on the computer. > > Doesn't it already depend on a LaTeX installation? Just a few days ago > I reinstalled my computer, and on Ubuntu, the lilypond package required > some TeX packages which I noticed, because I mistakenly forgot > to install texlive first, which I usually do.
Lilypond itself doesn't have (La)TeX as a dependency -- see: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Requirements#Requirements However, the lilypond-data package in Ubuntu lists several TeX-related dependencies/pre-dependencies, as you can see by typing aptitude show lilypond-data at the command line: ------------------------------------------- Package: lilypond-data State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2.12.2-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/tex Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 11.3M Depends: texinfo | texlive-texinfo, python, python-support (>= 0.90.0) PreDepends: texlive-base | tetex-bin Recommends: lilypond (>= 2.12.2-1) Conflicts: lilypond (< 2.2.2-2) Description: LilyPond music typesetter (data files) LilyPond is a music typesetter, an automated engraving system. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input. This package contains architecture-independent data files for LilyPond. Homepage: http://lilypond.org/ ------------------------------------------- Can anyone explain why these dependencies should exist (unless it's just that Debian/Ubuntu people have got things wrong)? Best wishes, -- Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
