Suggestion: --no-midi

[Erik Sandberg]

Hi,

I know this feature has been requested & flamed before, but.. I think it would 
be useful with a --no-midi option. The reason raised the previous request, 
was that --no-midi would be time saving, which I agree isn't a very strong 
reason by itself. But I have 3 more reasons:
1) It feels better to be able to control which files the lilypond script (most 
command-line programs are that way). This would be useful if you are invoking 
lilypond from a bash script, for example.
2) If lilypond-bin has annoying bugs in its midi output pass, e.g. <flame> it 
crashes or spits out loads of unmotivated warnings </flame> :), then you may 
want to disable that pass.
3) It looks good to have a --no-midi option, now that there are --no-ps and 
--no-pdf options already (to me, those options seem to be about as motivated 
as --no-midi, as they save about as much time & have a similar effect on the 
output).

The reason why I really want this option right now, is that I want to run a 
script on many .ly files. And I want to redirect stdin, which makes lily 
crash on most of these files.

Erik