Re: trouble with conversion ly to TeX

[Mats Bengtsson]

Erik Sandberg wrote:

> 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.
>  

In gv, select State -> Watch File, or start it with
gv --watch myfile.ps

  /Mats