I have run into one (but only one) problem going from 2.18 to 2.19: if you force-hshift a NoteColumn to the left, the dot no longer follows the note head and stem. You have to force-hshift the Dots grob too.
--- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Shevek, > > There's no need to be quite so cautious I think. Use convert-ly and see > how you go. It's easy enough to visually scan a hundred pages output to > check for errors - I do it all the time with my current piece of double > that length. > > I have written quite a few times on this list about this very topic. The > 2.19 development line is very stable and highly to be recommended. not only > is crashing behaviour very rare, but the scads of new features make it > worthwhile if for nothing else. > > I engrave scores by a colleague who is a major exponent of the New > Complexity School, and this work pushes lilypond to various limits in all > sorts of ways, and yet it holds up magnificently and produces very fine > output indeed, quite astonishingly beautiful in fact. I am currently > engraving a major piano sonata which is over 200 pages in length and well > over a hundred thousand lines of lilypond source code, and never a hiccup. > In the last few years I have only encountered in my work two small crashing > bugs and these were very rapidly addressed by the fantastic development > team. > > As to version numbers, you will know that open source development projects > are generally very humble with revision numbers, and are loth to bump them > up without very good reason. 2.20 will eventually arrive, but there is no > need to deprive yourself of the advances in the 2.19 series. It is a > tribute to the maturity and skill of the developers in the lilypond > community that the development releases are so stable and well produced. I > cannot praise them highly enough. > > In explicit answer to your question, there is no major problem lurking in > 2.19 that you need to worry about. > > On a practical note, I have the subjective impression the members of the > list are more willing to assist in solving user issues and queries with the > 2.19 series than 2.18 since it is more current - but I am prepared to be > wrong about that! > > Andrew > > > > > On 5 April 2017 at 16:17, Shevek <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> So my questions: >> >> 1) How stable is 2.19 for end users on a demanding project? It seems like >> forever since 2.18, so I'm sort of surprised there hasn't been 2.20 >> already. >> Is there some major problem I should be worried about in 2.19? >> >> > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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