Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ok; they were once used for processing the texinfo docs, right? > > They are still used for producing the PDF documentatation, so there is > still a build dependency on tetex. Also, tetex is great for making > documents with lilypond snippets, but this does not make tetex a > dependency (now that we dropped it).
Ah, yes, we get that from mftrace anyway, since mftrace depends on tetex-bin in Debian. :) >> You say that the TeX backend is no longer supported (!). Why is this? > > TeX used to be our easy way out to produce output. In the 2.5 series, > we managed to use pango to make the half-baken PS backend fully > operational. > > Supporting tex output is a lot of work, and it probably has just one user. I used to use it a lot. Ah well. :) Thomas _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
