Printing doesn't work if abcm2ps binary isn't installed - noteedit should depend or at least recommend on abcm2ps

[Miglena Perminienė]

Printing (File->Print) doesn't work if abcm2ps binary isn't installed - I get an error message "abcm2ps was not found in your PATH, aborting" :(
Noteedit should depend or at least recommend on abcm2ps package as printing scores is needed for majority of users.

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Suggests: timidity, lilypond | musixtex | abcm2ps | pmx

It already suggests lilypond or musixtex or abcm2ps or pmx. Is this not enough?

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Kai Kasurinen at 2006-11-06 00:05 EET wrote:
> Suggests: timidity, lilypond | musixtex | abcm2ps | pmx
> It already suggests lilypond or musixtex or abcm2ps or pmx. Is this not enough?

It's not enough - because of two reasons:

1. printing of scores are needed for majority of users, so suggest is not right dependancy there, look at debian policy manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps):
"[..]Suggests
    This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable."

Noteedit without printing ability *isn't* perfectly reasonable for majority of users.

2. I had lilypond already installed, so nor synaptic nor aptitude didn't mention any suggestion missing, but Printing (File->Print) didn't work until I installed abcm2ps package - I get an error message "abcm2ps was not found in your PATH, aborting" :(

[jan mugge (jan-mugge-home)]

I have two computers running Ubuntu, one dapper and one edgy.
On both installed noteedit with synaptic and found they differ by version.
Dapper installed noteedit 2.8.0 and edgy noteedit 2.8.1.
Differences as I found so far are printing behaviour and keyboard action.
For printing with 8.2.1 you can configure noteedit (settings) to use lilypond. File/Print delivers a good pdf printout wich can be previewed and printed from kpdf.
2.8.0 however can deliver a pdf with lilypound but via settings/output params. tab lilypond format and selecting start export button below right in the window. To my surprice it delivered a pdf- as well as a ps-file, though it only will inform you about a .li file to be saved! kpdf will print your pdf-file.
This will most probably solve your printing needs, but 2.8.1 is preferable.
2.8.0 on my ubuntu doesn't listen to the keyboard, so for instance I can't delete anything while editing!! I need 2.8.1 on my dapper but don't know how.
attached a pdf file

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

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