Laura Conrad wrote: > I don't think there's any way to use lilypond-book to do real work without > several > kinds of hacks. I'm using:
> A hack to get the included files to cause recompilation lilypond-book *generally* doesn't rewrite an output file if the old output file is up to date, which gave me headaches in LilyPond documentation makefiles hacking until I discovered this. I said "generally" because I made lilypond-book touch Texinfo output files even if they needn't be rewritten, to ease makefiles proper operation. I guess it would help a lot if lilypond-book touched output files in all formats. > I think it's worth it to avoid using the hacks which will undoubtedly > change next month that people are adding to let lilypond do some of > the work of a real publishing program. I don't expect anyone whose > experience of open-source software is limited to lilypond to believe > this, but I do have LaTeX files from almost 20 years ago that still > work. I recently hacked lilypond-book for LilyPond documentation compilation, I welcome precise feature requests for lilypond-book, although I will only have some time in April, and a bunch of time in summer to tackle them. Cheers, John _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
