Re: lilypond -dread-file-list= dows not produce the expected output

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:43:01AM +0100, Colin Hall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:58:00AM -0700, Eluze wrote:
> > running the command
> > 
> > lilypond -dread-file-list=read-file-list.txt   --> displays the help text
> > (same as lilypond -h)
> 
> Searching both open and closed trackers revealed nothing about this
> option. I wonder when it was last used?
> 
> Anyway, by experimentation I discovered that the correct syntax, on
> both Linux and Windows, is:
> 
> lilypond -dread-file-list read-file-list.txt
> 
> or
> 
> lilypond -d read-file-list read-file-list.txt
> 
> Note the lack of an equals sign.
> 
> What this option appears to do is to tell Lilypond to treat the
> Lilypond source file as a list of files to process.
> 
> I think the following is the topic of your other post, Eluze: what I
> also found was that the file containing the list of files to process
> must have Linux line endings. A Windows plain text file is not
> correctly interpreted.

Just to be clear then, there is no bug to report here.

This was a usage problem.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall