Re: Lily producing bad latex

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> >>>>> "Han-Wen" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Han-Wen> Well actually, if you use point-and-click, you will get that
>     Han-Wen> information in the form of src:  specials.
> 
> So could lily look at that information and report the line number?  
 
>     >> There is an even worse problem when running lilypond-book with the
>     >> \lilypondfile statement, in that the error reporting doesn't even
>     >> point you to the *name* of the file you need to look at.
> 
>     Han-Wen> Actually, it does: it will point to the lily-XXXX.tex
>     Han-Wen> file. The corresponding lily-XXXX.ly file will direct you
>     Han-Wen> to the original file.
> 
> Yes, I've figured out how to do that, but couldn't lily figure out how
> to make the computer do that for me?  
> 

Technically speaking, both of those are a job of
ly2dvi/lilypond-book. You could write some routines in there to grok
the .log files coming out of tex.

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