Re: lilyglyphs not found in ubuntu packages 20.04

[bart deruyter]

Thanks for the update, I'll look into how I can change my document so it uses lyluatex only. I used lyluatex to include complete scores in my document, not for single musical signs, for that I used lilyglyphs. 

Actually I'm considering to drop the latex road and switch to libreoffice, for one big important reason: epub, and I need the epub format because of the pandemic. I expect more Covid-19 related shutdowns of the schools I work for, and my students use mobile devices very often. On these pdf's are often not good, they don't scale good, epub does.

There is one important reason to keep lilyglyphs: compatibility with older documents. 

If I get what I need from lyluatex it's OK for me personally to drop support for it, I haven't used it that often, I can handle fixing that, but I doubt I'm the only one having documents using lilyglyphs. 

I do revisit older files too and when my pdf's fail to compile because of issues like these, needing to update something urgently, I think everybody can agree that is not a very happy moment.

I was lucky it was not urgent. I really can't believe I'm the only one having used lilyglyphs, so I'm afraid, dropping support for it all together will result in many 'not very happy moments'.

grtz,

Bart

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Op vr 28 aug. 2020 om 22:06 schreef Urs Liska <lists@openlilylib.org>:

Hi Bart,

thanks for reminding.

Am Freitag, den 28.08.2020, 21:20 +0200 schrieb bart deruyter:

Hi all,

I would need to start working on my project again, using luatex, lilypond, lyluatex and lilyglyphs. But lilyglyphs appears to be missing from the ubuntu packages. This summer I upgraded to 20.04 though, and I found out to my surprise, lilyglyphs is missing. It is present in 'eoan' though.

I already contacted the developer but only heard from him it is missing indeed and he did not know why either.

Maybe someone here knows what has been going on.

I asked on the texlive mailing list, and I got an answer, but I didn't manage following through

Am Freitag, den 03.07.2020, 07:41 +0900 schrieb Norbert Preining:

> Hi Urs,

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> > Someone posted an issue that lilyglyphs.sty seems to be missing in
> > TeX

> > Live after updating to Ubuntu 20.04.

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> And in Debian. Because it depends on Python2 the last time I checked,

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> and Python2 programs are not acceptable anymore in Debian and Ubuntu:

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> From my Debian package building config file (ignore the syntax
> around)

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>         # python3 purge - blacklist all packages that don't have py3
> support

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>         blacklist;tpm;ebong;*

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>         blacklist;tpm;de-macro;*

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>         blacklist;tpm;lilyglyphs;*

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>         blacklist;tpm;pygmentex;*

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>         blacklist;tpm;sympytexpackage;*

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> Update to Python3 version of the scripts is necessary.

So the workaround would be to either update the helper scripts to Python 3 or to drop these scripts. Off the top of my head I don't know how important these scripts actually are or how complex it would be to update them.

They are used to create sets of new notation elements. IIRC.

My personal gut feeling would be to drop support for lilyglyphs altogether because lyluatex can do everything lilyglyphs can, and better - i.e. without the need for pre-compiled PDFs. But - and that's a big but - the advantage of lilyglyphs is that it doesn't need to run LilyPond. *I* will always have LilyPond around, but for a general audience this would be a major limitation, I think.

Opinions?

Urs

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