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Suggestion: --no-midi
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Erik Sandberg |
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Suggestion: --no-midi |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:01:31 +0100 |
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Hi,
I know this feature has been requested & flamed before, but.. I think it would
be useful with a --no-midi option. The reason raised the previous request,
was that --no-midi would be time saving, which I agree isn't a very strong
reason by itself. But I have 3 more reasons:
1) It feels better to be able to control which files the lilypond script (most
command-line programs are that way). This would be useful if you are invoking
lilypond from a bash script, for example.
2) If lilypond-bin has annoying bugs in its midi output pass, e.g. <flame> it
crashes or spits out loads of unmotivated warnings </flame> :), then you may
want to disable that pass.
3) It looks good to have a --no-midi option, now that there are --no-ps and
--no-pdf options already (to me, those options seem to be about as motivated
as --no-midi, as they save about as much time & have a similar effect on the
output).
The reason why I really want this option right now, is that I want to run a
script on many .ly files. And I want to redirect stdin, which makes lily
crash on most of these files.
Erik
- Suggestion: --no-midi,
Erik Sandberg <=