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Re: Lilypond-book docs incorrect
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Kevin Donnelly |
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Re: Lilypond-book docs incorrect |
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Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:43:45 +0000 |
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Yes - mea culpa. I will order the sackcloth today ...
You are absolutely right that using the correct docs for my Lilypond version
(2.8) works, namely:
mkdir outputs
lilypond-book --psfonts --output=outputs/ myarticle.lytex
cd outputs
latex myarticle.tex
dvips -o -h myarticle.psfonts -Ppdf myarticle.dvi
ps2pdf myarticle.ps
This is from
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Invoking-lilypond_002dbook.html#Invoking-lilypond_002dbook
The page for 2.10 is similar:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Invoking-lilypond_002dbook#Invoking-lilypond_002dbook
However, I have just seen Mats comment about 2.10, which seems to suggest that
for a pdf the commands should be:
lilypond-book --pdf -o output=outputs/ myarticle.lytex
cd outputs
pdflatex myarticle.tex
dvips -o -h myarticle.psfonts -Ppdf myarticle.dvi
ps2pdf myarticle.ps
I will try this when I am able to upgrade to 2.10.
In the meantime, much to my delight, Kile is able to make all the 2.8 compile
steps above a one-click option, and I want to document that somewhere now
that I have it working.
On a more general docs point, I do wonder if there would be merit in flagging
the docs to point out more clearly mismatches between them and the version?
There is currently a strip along the bottom giving the version, but I missed
it entirely. Would it be possible to move this to the top of the page, put a
big red border around it, and change the text to something like "This info
relates to an obsolete version x-x-x of Lilypond - go here to read docs for
the current stable version". Then plonkers like me won't waste time trying
to sort out something that has already been sorted by your good selves.
--
Pob hwyl / Best wishes
Kevin Donnelly
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