Re: missing/empty files

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 01.08.2015 um 19:35 schrieb Dan Eble:
> I have a couple of related suggestions.  These would be minor conveniences—so 
> minor that I don’t care enough at the moment to implement them myself.
>
> let convert-ly remain silent about files which contain only whitespace (or 
> which are empty) rather than issuing an error that there is no \version 
> statement
>
> add a variant of \include which does nothing if the file does not exist 
> (eliminating one reason to have empty files in the first place)
Thanks for reporting.
This will likely need discussion, but I’ve created issue 
<https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4558> for your 
first suggestion. I’m more hesitant with the second one: surely we would 
want \include to complain if there has been a typo and it should 
actually refer to an existing file. Since it’s hardly possible for Lily 
to decide about the user’s intentions here, we might perhaps provide 
another function with the behaviour you describe (or might such a 
function already be available through openlilylib?). Needs_design…

Yours, Simon