Re: DOCS: revising LM "Score and Parts"

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I don't know what
>>      $(LILY_CMD) $<; \
>> means,

This calls lilypond -- or rather the contents of the variable LILY_CMD
-- with the prerequisite (the *.ly file) as the argument.

>> but the two if statements seem to check if there are any pdf or
>> midi files around and then move them to their directories.
>>
>> On Windows this can be achieved as follows:
>>      if exist *.pdf  move "*.pdf" PDF/
>>      if exist *.midi move "*.pdf" MIDI/
> 
> If it has to be on one line:
>       if exist *.pdf  move "*.pdf" PDF/ & if exist *.midi move "*.pdf" MIDI/

It is not necessary to put everything on a single line, but if you do
so you avoid (at least under GNU/Linux) additional calls to the
command shell, making the execution faster.


     Werner