Re: [frogs] Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

2010-03-25 Thread James Lowe
hello, Mark Polesky wrote: I have vague memories of being confused on Windows, not using a command line (double-clicking my file icon). If I recall, the only output I could find was the resulting log file, and I often felt under-informed whenever the process would hang. Actually with windo

Re: [frogs] Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Polesky
James Lowe wrote: > So, from a non-Unix user who doesn't really 'know much > stuff', I'd like to just add that I think it would be a > nice step to know that the PDF was created, for example > some earlier versions of Mac OS will not create the PDF if > it is already open by another App, Windows li

Re: [frogs] Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

2010-03-25 Thread James Lowe
Hello Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> >> Why don't you alias lilypond to >> >> (lilypond "$*" && echo Success) || echo Failed >> >> simpler, and more conformant to the unix tradition ("no news is good >> news"). >> > We already print out a quite extensive log of informati