Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

[Marc Hohl]

Am 25.08.2015 um 10:11 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:
> > > If all else fails, the lilypond binary itself can serve as a GUILE
> > > interpreter.
> >
> > That was the general idea. I posted some instructions about how to add
> > the utility to a lilypond installation for people but in a new
> > thread. It was actually one of the main reasons I did it in Scheme -
> > there would be a guaranteed known execution environment installed if
> > the user is using lilypond to begin with.
>
> It's not just that.  It's also that the lilypond executable is pretty
> sure to know the search paths of LilyPond.  You cannot really get them
> reliably without calling LilyPond, and if you do that anyway, why not
> use its interpreter?
This would be a great idea!

The flatten-ly procedure would come in handy to solve the problem of
lilypond-book and lyluatex that changes in nested include files do not
cause the lilypond sourecs to be rendered again.

If the md5 sum is calculated of a flattened ly file instead of the
original ly file, *every* change is visible.

So +1 for making flatten-ly a lilypond executable!


Marc