Re: Lilypond-book docs incorrect

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> 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
>  
No! pdflatex will directly create a PDF file, so there's no
need for the dvips and ps2pdf commands. This is documented
in "Invoking lilypond-book" in the manual for version 2.10.
If you check the manual for version 2.11 (which almost
completely is relevant also for version 2.10 and which
is significantly reworked and improved compared to the
manual for 2.10, you will find that the pdflatex alternative
is described as the main alternative, already in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/An-example-of-a-musicological-document#An-example-of-a-musicological-document

 /Mats