Re: Support for LilyPond 2.20.0

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 14:36 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> Ok. I will look bundling lilypond 2.20 with the windows denemo
> package.  Would I distribute both version 2.18 and 2.20 into the
> windows build?

There's no need to do that I don't think. As I recall it was a matter
of copying the LilyPond files over the Denemo ones or vice versa...
only one way worked.

Richard


> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:29 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com
> > wrote:
> > 
> > There is a new release of LilyPond out (this happens every few
> > years).
> > Most Denemo scores continue to typeset just fine if you install
> > this
> > version, but Playback View will not work and Book Titles and Global
> > Transpose are only working because the new version is tolerant of
> > old
> > syntax.
> > 
> > So I've implemented changes to Denemo that allows it to fully
> > support
> > two versions of LilyPond at any one time - the current stable and
> > the
> > last stable version.
> > This version of Denemo was built overnight, but the Windows built
> > last
> > night still has LilyPond 2.18 built in - you can install 2.20 and
> > change your preferences to point to the lilypond-windows.exe of
> > that
> > version (it would be at C:\Program Files\lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond-
> > windows.exe by default) if you want to try it out.
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> >