Re: Catching error messages

[Graham Percival]

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:13:36PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > lilypond $f &> $f.log
>
> Yeah, I eventually got that, or something pretty close. It can be pretty
> useful. I might write a page for the docs regarding batch processing.
> The main problem, of course, is that this is OS dependent.

Well, kind-of.  I mean, every serious operating system has bash 
installed.  ;)
(or users who know the difference between that and csh, ksh, or whatever 
they use).

> The other obvious place is in section 13.1, since that's where I went
> first to see if there were options to help with log files and the
> like. This is my preference.

I'd probably put it in chapter 13, with one or two sentences somewhere 
in chapters 3-5 to pique people's interest.


> (What would be really nice, but
> getting-off-topic-and-besides-I-don't-want-to-do-it would be a tutorial about
> how to use Makefiles and preprocessors with LilyPond.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00181.html


> (I know there are
> a few people who do such things. I don't think it would belong in the
> LilyPond docs per se, and thus not really our concern, but if somebody
> were to do such a thing it could be useful to a lot of Lily users.)

If something is useful, not redundant, and the author wishes to place it 
under GNU FDL, I'll find a place for it in the lilypond manual.  Even if 
I have to make a new chapter just for it.

Cheers,
- Graham