Re: Automating LilyPond setup on Windows

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 18 mars 2023 à 16:44 -0500, Karlin High a écrit : > Or, maybe it would be better to have all this handled within > Frescobaldi instead? > > Have Frescobaldi look up the latest version of LilyPond, and if it > doesn't exist on the user's computer, offer to download and install > it?

Automating LilyPond setup on Windows

2023-03-18 Thread Karlin High
LilyPond's current build system produces stand-alone, relocatable Windows executables distributed in a zip folder. Which I think approaches the ideal. However, for the past 2 human generations or so, Windows users have been taught they are unqualified to manage locations of software executables.

Re: Is it time to update the Finale 2008 sample in Essay?

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 15 mars 2023 à 00:57 +0100, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : > Le mardi 14 mars 2023 à 17:44 -0600, Abraham Lee a écrit : > > > At the time I started with LP, the Finale 2008 example wasn't that old > > in the Essay section. Is it really fair for us to continue showing this > > since qu

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
(moving to the devel list from the user list) Le samedi 18 mars 2023 à 05:08 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > ``` > > > I can see that the size of the Cairo-generated PDF is around 3 times > > bigger compared to the same document generated with Ghostscript?  Is > > there is way to reduce the siz