Re: Issue 1933 in lilypond: Lilypond-book requires msvcrt again

[mike]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:13:54 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> Comment #38 on issue 1933 by address@hidden: Lilypond-book
> requires  msvcrt again
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1933
>
> There seems to be a further problem with Reinhold's attempt to
> auto-detect  linewidth and exampleindent.  The code he inserted
> appears to rely on  texi2pdf, but AFAICS texi2pdf is not available 
> for
> Windows.  I'd be happy  to be proved wrong on this, but so far I've
> failed to find a Windows  implementation.  Maybe Reinhold's code can
> be extended to use texi2html as  an alternative, but I don't know if
> the same information is available from  texi2html.  Reinhold - can 
> you
> shed any light on this?  If not, my  inclination is to remove this
> auto-detect code, so fixing the critical bug,  and replace it with
> another issue to add auto-detect code which works on  all platforms.

I'd suggest using:

import sys

mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")

and then

if not mswindows :
  Reinhold's code
else :
  some default value

Cheers,
MS