[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>    What Han-Wen meant in his answer is that typically, lilypond will
>    output two files, one .tex file and one .midi file, you could also
>    get for example a .ps file.  For this reason, the -o option does
>    only set the base name of the file.
> 
> Hmm, I think it would be easy to check whether the file name has
> `.tex' as a suffix.  If yes, it should be removed.  And if someone
> really wants `foo.tex.tex', he must enter `-o foo.tex.' -- I think
> this is the default behaviour of many other programs.


I hope we all understand that this is extreme nitpicking.  In any
case, I'd say we have to strip all possible suffixes, in that case.
But rather I'd change the manual page to say:

    -o         set basename of output files.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter 
      http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html 

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