Re: lilypond-book on windows

[catchall]

Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> I'm going to pursue to the docs in more detail now.
> http://docs.python.org/release/2.4/lib/node227.html
>
> - Graham

I honestly don't think it's a good use of time pursuing this.  To  
recap.  The failing part is the bit Reinhold added to detect linewidth  
- and at the time, this was added solely to tidy up the lilypond  
documentation which is never built on windows.  As an ugly  
side-effect, it imported subprocess, which caused our installation to  
fail as missing msvcrt.  For a reason I don't understand, we started  
shipping msvcrt in the last few releases, so all other things being  
equal, windows users could run lilypond-book except for this linewidth  
detection.  To get the linewidth detection to work, windows users will  
need to install texi2pdf - I've only spent 5 minutes looking and can't  
find an obvious source.  (texi2html can't work - there's no such thing  
as page width in html - generally the text fills the browser window).   
So - to make it worthwhile doing anything other than commenting out  
this code for windows users, we at least should be sure texi2pdf  
exists for windows.

The other aspect to this is that lilypond-book hasn't been working on  
Windows for months and I believe we had one "complaint".  Using TeX on  
windows doesn't seem to me to be something most users would do - if I  
was writing a book, I'd do it in Word and paste the images from  
lilypond in.  So it's really not worth prioritising any more.

Trevor and I - both windows users, I believe - agree that the code  
should be skipped for windows users - why don't we just do this?

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