>>>>> "David" == David Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> I'd like to move up to 1.7.x for the ability to put text David> markup over block rests. How stable is it? My experience with the 1.5-1.6 transition is that 1.5 was "stable" over most of it's life in the sense of not producing terrible output. And on the rare occasions where a bug did cause terrible output, it got fixed in a very timely manner. Unfortunately, there were still input syntax changes being made quite late in the 1.5 cycle, so that a lot of the work I did on 1.5.x can't be compiled with either the 1.4 or the 1.6 "stable" versions. This is a major problem for the stuff that's on my website. When people find transcription errors, I can't just change the note and say "make" to get a corrected version. And also unfortunately, convert-ly isn't maintained in the sense that all syntax changes, or even all minor syntax changes for which conversion would be easy, are added as conversions to the appropriate version. So my current advice is that for production work, you should only use a version labeled "stable". I believe that there's a commitment that the input syntax doesn't change between releases of a stable version. For something you expect to do this week and use next week and never look at again, you should use any version that has features you like, and it would be virtuous to use the development version to provide feedback on it to the developers. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user