Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

[Patrick Horgan]

Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> 3. Using the lilypond program (on Linux) amounts to learn the following 2
>    commands:
>     $ lilypond myfyle.ly
>     $ xpdf myfile.pdf
>    That certainly should not scare away people motivated by the nice printed
>    scores which this software produces. [Of course, assuming that people
>    know what a file is, how to edit its contents and what a command is.]
>   
Here's one of the amusing things about linux.  If I were a beginning 
linux user trying to figure this out, I'd be panicking after reading 
this, because my distribution install evince by default for this sort of 
thing, not xpdf.   I'd be going nuts trying to figure out how to get 
it!  Of course as an experienced linux user I find it's available in my 
distribution and try it...it's pretty cool!  The one thing it doesn't do 
that I do with evince a lot is use a wild card to look at several pdfs 
in the same directory.  It gives me a usage comment when I try that.  It 
also doesn't do postscript files.

Patrick