Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, The problem is that I am using the version of Lilypond supported by the OS package manager. I'm running Pop! OS which is basically an Ubuntu derivative. They JUST today announced their next LTS release (22.04) is ready. So, the OS maintained version is currently at 2.20 (to be precise,

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
> > > There have been problems with the version in the search box > going out of sync with the current LilyPond version, but I > think these days we are careful to update it timely. It won't > help with older versions though. > > Jean > Alas, more's the pity. Well, now that 22.04 LTS is out, I'll

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 25/04/2022 à 23:56, Kevin Cole a écrit : Alas, more's the pity. Well, now that 22.04 LTS is out, I'll be upgrading soon, which looks like it will get me 2.22 of Lilypond. Any reason not to use the latest version from the website? lilypond.org/unix.html gives you a shell script

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 25/04/2022 à 23:37, Kevin Cole a écrit : Hi, The problem is that I am using the version of Lilypond supported by the OS package manager. I'm running Pop! OS which is basically an Ubuntu derivative. They JUST today announced their next LTS release (22.04) is ready. So, the OS maintained

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:49 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the > 2.22.2 version. > > In

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Cole writes: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:49 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed >> a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to >> use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using

LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread David Kastrup
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.2 version. In this release, dropping Guile 1.8 support has finally become

Re: LSR inconsistencies

2022-04-25 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Il giorno sab 12 ott 2019 alle ore 12:08 Werner LEMBERG ha scritto: > > > > https://lsr.di.unimi.it/list.php?type=snippet > > > > enter in the Title-box: > > > > Template: integrating \startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan in a customized > TextSpanner > > > > then click "Enable filter". Nothing

Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

2022-04-25 Thread Luca Fascione
*understood, of course On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, 14:14 Luca Fascione, wrote: > Yes I underground that, I was meaning for person's mental parsers, it > helps that tokens (in an informal sense) always look the same > > L > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, 14:01 David Kastrup, wrote: > >> Luca Fascione writes:

Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

2022-04-25 Thread Luca Fascione
Yes I underground that, I was meaning for person's mental parsers, it helps that tokens (in an informal sense) always look the same L On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, 14:01 David Kastrup, wrote: > Luca Fascione writes: > > > I think this is because it being an unquoted string (PERLfolk call these > >

Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

2022-04-25 Thread David Kastrup
Luca Fascione writes: > I think this is because it being an unquoted string (PERLfolk call these > barewords) makes it feel more like an identifier, even if technically it's > a string (for the time being). > It also has some advantages for example it's easier to work with names > being always

Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

2022-04-25 Thread Luca Fascione
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:47 AM David Kastrup wrote: > it seems somehow wrong to see stuff without quotes > that has not previously been defined. > Actually, while I think I follow why you're saying this, it's been my experience (both as a user and as a provider of software) that most people

Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

2022-04-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Well, one reason is that this enables the documentation highlighter > to highlight engraver names in a special color/style picked based on their > nature of engravers (purple in HTML, italic bold in PDF), whereas > between quotes they are just strings. > > I observed