Re: [frogs] Re: Enhancement request: Termination message for lilypond compilations

[James Lowe]

Hello

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>>
>> Why don't you alias lilypond to
>>
>>   (lilypond "$*" && echo Success) || echo Failed
>>
>> simpler, and more conformant to the unix tradition ("no news is good
>> news").
>>
> We already print out a quite extensive log of information during the
> processing (which probably is not conformant to the UNIX tradition), so
> why is it so bad to also tell the user that the PDF was successfully
> produced.

Actually we don't, not really when it is compiling properly.

So, from a non-Unix user who doesn't really 'know much stuff', I'd like 
to just add that I think it would be a nice step to know that the PDF 
was created, for example some earlier versions of Mac OS will not create 
the PDF if it is already open by another App, Windows likewise.

Knowing that the PDF has not been created because of something like this 
alone would make it a lot more useful to me (and I expect other users), 
let alone generally.

Think of it like our logs currently start at dissonance:

> # -*-compilation-*-
> Processing `C:/Users/jlowe/Desktop/hello.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [8][16][24][32][40]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Solving 1 page-breaking chunks...[1: 1 pages]
> Drawing systems...

move to consonance

> Layout output to `/Users/jlowe/Desktop/hello.ps'...
> Converting to `/Users/jlowe/Desktop/hello.pdf'...

all we need is resolution.

;)

James