"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> > To: "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> > Cc: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:14 PM > Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows > > >> "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: >> >>> David wrote Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:07 PM >>> >>>> So it would appear that we still deliver a broken version of >>>> LilyPond-book in 2.18.2 since no Windows users are interested in it >>>> enough that we would have gotten a report about it in the month that it >>>> was available in the developer releases. >>> >>> I use lilypond-book under Windows, but only for compiling sections >>> of the documentation. It works fine for me, even 2.19.3. I don't use >>> Latex at all. >> >> The latest problems are in the LaTeX part and the problematic >> functionality involving TEXINPUTS has not apparently been ported to >> Texinfo. >> >>> Well, by "fine" I mean it does what I need. The opening preamble >>> which attempts to determine some line width fails, but it has failed >>> in the same way for ages, since Graham's workaround for the problem >>> David mentions - 1933. >> >> Just fabulous. So we have been using a "fix" that causes reliable >> failure since 2.16. > > As I said many times on the notes of 1933, the line width detection > was put in solely to avoid the black bars we used to get in our > documentation: it had no other purpose. Given that nobody compiles > the final documents on windows, the fact that it fails is of no > relevance whatever.
Except for Windows users of lilypond-book. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
