----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
Cc: "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows
"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes:
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk>
Cc: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows
"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes:
David wrote Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:07 PM
So it would appear that we still deliver a broken version of
LilyPond-book in 2.18.2 since no Windows users are interested in it
enough that we would have gotten a report about it in the month that
it
was available in the developer releases.
I use lilypond-book under Windows, but only for compiling sections
of the documentation. It works fine for me, even 2.19.3. I don't use
Latex at all.
The latest problems are in the LaTeX part and the problematic
functionality involving TEXINPUTS has not apparently been ported to
Texinfo.
Well, by "fine" I mean it does what I need. The opening preamble
which attempts to determine some line width fails, but it has failed
in the same way for ages, since Graham's workaround for the problem
David mentions - 1933.
Just fabulous. So we have been using a "fix" that causes reliable
failure since 2.16.
As I said many times on the notes of 1933, the line width detection
was put in solely to avoid the black bars we used to get in our
documentation: it had no other purpose. Given that nobody compiles
the final documents on windows, the fact that it fails is of no
relevance whatever.
Except for Windows users of lilypond-book.
--
David Kastrup
Did you read what I wrote? It's _only_ relevant for compiling the LilyPond
docs: lilypond-book users do not need automatic line-width detection.
--
Phil Holmes
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