On 4/19/20, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Note that the delete-file instructions are executed while the book is > being read in while markup is typeset when the books are being processed > at the end of the input file.
Yes, it looked completely bonkers to me as well, until I realized it worked :-) > No idea whether the fonts made it into > LilyPond at that point of time, or how happy LilyPond is with them > appearing. No, because at this point the first \book has already been processed, and even GS should already be invoked. That’s the whole point of putting that stuff inside another \book. > There may well be race conditions here. Well, AFAIK there’s no parallelism inside a same .ly file being processed for different \book outputs. (If there _was_, that would be great news though!) V.
