David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 22:00:01 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >> David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: >> >> > On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 21:58:58 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> >> > Hi Chris, >> >> >> >> > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty >> >> > simple. >> >> >> >> > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there. >> >> > By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very stable >> >> > and the 19 series have so many good features it seems a pity to >> >> > languish in the past! >> >> >> >> I'll take another look at the "cross staff stems" documentation. >> >> >> >> As to upgrading lilypond I tend to stick with the version that is >> >> provided by my distribution (debian stable) unless I really need one >> >> particular new feature. >> > >> > Strictly speaking, Debian stable, currently stretch, doesn't >> > contain lilypond because it depends on guile-1.8-libs which >> > stretch doesn't support. >> >> They just include the guile-1.8-libs internally to LilyPond and replace >> the LilyPond executable with a shell wrapper pointing LDPATH to them. > > I think you're referring to stretch-backports. If one is happy to > run backports, then I'd be surprised by any reluctance to run the > lilypond.org unstable version. > > BTW do you have an opinion on the line being taken in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-12/msg00231.html > I think a lot of people have difficulty with the term "unstable" > as used with free software, where it means "things will change" > rather than "things will fall over".
2.19.80 is a stable prerelease. That is, things are expected to change but not substantially so (unless they are broken without easy fix). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
