Re: Silent install of versions up to 2.23.6 for Windows

2022-12-18 Thread Paolo Prete
I just checked that a possible solution is to unzip the exe archive in somedir. Then I called lilypond.exe in usr/bin and it worked fine. However, I wonder if there can be unwanted side effects in "installing" the program in this way... On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:46 AM Paolo Prete wrote: > Hello

Silent install of versions up to 2.23.6 for Windows

2022-12-18 Thread Paolo Prete
Hello, Is there a way to install versions up to 2.23.6-1 for Windows without the installer GUI interaction, with a command line that specifies the destination directory? AFAIK, this is possible for Darwin and Linux, but I can't find a way for Windows. On Linux, for example, I do: echo '\n' | sh

(top-repl): suggestions for a demo?

2022-12-18 Thread Eduardo Ochs
Hi all, I am a very basic user of lilypond - I never did anything more advanced than simple piano pieces with lyrics - but a few weeks ago I found a way to use REPLs to learn Tikz, and I recorded a video about that, that is here... http://angg.twu.net/eev-tikz.html Its two main ideas can be ad

Re: Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/12/2022 à 22:22, Abraham Lee a écrit : By the way, is there already an issue for your request in the LilyPond tracker? No, I haven't submitted an issue about this. I've tolerated it for long enough that I just keep forgetting about it lol. Then I suggest to create one. B

Re: Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 18/12/2022 à 22:03, Abraham Lee a écrit : > > Great questions, Jean. > > > > As a font creator (both text and music) and semi-power user, I've > > always hated that LilyPond only looks within its own data folder for > > music fonts. This

Re: Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/12/2022 à 22:03, Abraham Lee a écrit : Great questions, Jean. As a font creator (both text and music) and semi-power user, I've always hated that LilyPond only looks within its own data folder for music fonts. This has required me to duplicate all my fonts to the data directory of every

Re: Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > As a font creator (both text and music) and semi-power user, I've always > hated that LilyPond only looks within its own data folder for music fonts. OMG YES As someone with multiple installations of Lilypond, and multiple custom fonts, managing this is more than a small PITA… > Would

Re: Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Abraham Lee
Great questions, Jean. As a font creator (both text and music) and semi-power user, I've always hated that LilyPond only looks within its own data folder for music fonts. This has required me to duplicate all my fonts to the data directory of every new version of LilyPond I install to make them ac

Prioriziting a directory

2022-12-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, Is there a way to express this in a Fontconfig configuration file: "If you find a matching font in this directory given as relative path, ignore other matches and choose that one"? Context: LilyPond (the GNU music typesetter) uses Fontconfig via Pango for finding text fonts, but also for mus