I sympathize with all the users who are just now running into the difficulties of keeping lilypond files in sync with lilypond development. I've been using lilypond since about 1.4, and it hasn't gotten any easier.
I also agree with the people who've been saying that the right answer is to keep old lilypond versions installed, so that you can update a lilypond file in a minor way without going through the conversion and re-tweaking process every time. My problem is that I have several major projects that are in lilypond 2.0. Even where convert-ly performs flawlessly (which it doesn't for a number of features, like multi-verse vocal music), it would be at least hours and more likely days of work to do all the re-tweaking and repaginating to convert these books to lily 2.8. You can't just install lily 2.0 on a modern (less than a year old) linux system, because the fix for having lilypond use tetex 3.0 happened sometime in the 2.4 development cycle, and was never backported to older versions. Until last week, I was dealing with this on my Debian Unstable system by pinning tetex to 2.5. Unfortunately, last week my machine died, and I decided to put Ubuntu Dapper on the new machine. It turns out not to be possible to install tetex 2.5 directly on an Ubuntu Dapper machine. A very nice person on the ubuntu users list is attempting to walk me through building the tetex 2.5 from Ubuntu Breezy for Ubuntu Dapper, but it doesn't seem to be easy, and in any case, as a publisher I use TeX for enough things that sooner or later I'm sure I will want something that needs tetex 3.0. So I'm considering the following options: Installing Ubuntu breezy or some other distribution with tetex 2.5 on it in another partition on my giant new hard drive. I only need to change the 2.0 lily files a few times a year, so this might be the most straightforward thing for me to do. Seeing if I can run lilypond 2.0 from a TeX Live CD of the appropriate vintage. Has anyone tried to run any lilypond with any TeX Live CD and what were the results? Finding out what were the changes necessary for lilypond to run on tetex 3.0 and what's involved in backporting them to lilyond 2.0. Can anyone help with this? This would be the most straightforward answer for lilypond development in general. I'm sure I'm not the only person facing problems like this, so I'd be interested in hearing what other people are doing about them. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
