Re: trouble with conversion ly to TeX

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 09.47, Guy Durrieu wrote:
> Erik Sandberg wrote :
> >The tex back-end is deprecated and unsupported. The normal operation is to
> >create a .ps file directly.
> >
> >Why do you need tex output?
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> What I find interesting in TeXT/LaTeX based tools is "interactivity". I
> mean that when you
> modify the source program and recompile it, you can see the result in a
> dvi window without
> recalling xdvi (the xdvi window must only be hidden during
> compilations). With lilypond, I
> think it would also be faster to see the result of modifications through
> the ly -> dvi output
> than by recalling ghostview or acrobat reader after each compilation. At
> least, that is
> what I tried to verify :)

This has to do with the viewer. In gv, you can press 'Reload' after each 
recompile; this is also done automatically if you wait for a long time. It's 
possible that there is a ps viewer out there, which automatically updates the 
view at once when a file changes on disk (just like xdvi does), but I haven't 
seen one.

-- 
Erik