Re: [lily4jedit-user] Files in the MIDI viewer not updating:

[Valentin V. <val...@vi...>]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Stuart Simon <stu...@gm...> wrote:
> I have been using various stable versions of LilyPondTool with various
> versions of jEdit and LilyPond for various versions of Mac OS X and
> Windows. They ALL have the same bug. Suppose I create a file named
> abc.ly with /midi { }. The file named abc.mid is overwritten each time
> LilyPondTool runs on abc.ly. By contrast, the file abc.midi, which
> LilyPondTool's MIDI viewer relies on, is created once and never
> overwritten. The most commonly recognized MIDI file extension for
> files without lyrics has been .mid for as long as I have been aware of
> MIDI, that is, since Windows 3.x. I would believe that it is a simple
> task to modify the MIDI viewer's source code so that it reads .mid
> files instead of .midi files,

This a limitation of Microsoft Windows (and a legacy from the days
where MS-DOS only allowed three-letters extensions), not the other way
around.

LilyPond has only produced .midi files for a decade, and it's only
because Windows users were complaining that we added the option, three
years ago, to output .mid files instead:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/creating-midi-files.html

I believe this is now the default behavior on MS-Windows, but if the
LilyPondTool player needs .midi files you can easily add a
command-line argument to use the four-letter extension.

> If somebody could forward this to the
> attention of the original developer of the MIDI viewer part of
> LilyPondTool, then I'd be eternally grateful. I have already posted
> this on the Bugs tracker. Although SourceForge is SUPPOSED to be the
> best place to report bugs, in practice it never works. Large numbers
> of tickets on the Bugs tracker go unanswered and are closed
> automatically because of idling. I therefore think it prudent to place
> this somewhere where I am nearly guaranteed to get a response. Thank
> you!

Personally speaking, each and every bug I reported on LilyPondTool's
tracker has always been addressed within weeks by Bertalan.

Cheers,
V. Villenave.