Re: conversion batchfile or commandscript

[Graham Percival]

On 1-Sep-05, at 1:50 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > >   http://lilypond.org/mingw/lilypond-tools-2.6.0.zip
> > Is this still the recommended way for windows users to get 
> > convert-ly?  If so,
> > could we add this link to the download page?
>
> I'm a bit reluctant to do that, since they are not built as part of 
> the regular release cycle (they can't be cross compiled).

Well, we should figure out how to deal with those scripts.  I don't 
think it's terrible
if each package has their own way of dealing with them, but we need to 
document
them.  This is the most frequently asked item on -user right now.

> Hey,
>
> how much interest would there be in a convert-ly web interface? We 
> could offer access to convert-ly a subscription plan :-)
> (the same holds for etf2ly, abc2ly, etc.)

I don't know about etf2ly, but that could work well for convert-ly and 
abc2ly.  However,
it would need to be a true "update lilypond files", not just "run 
convert-ly".  ie if
convert-ly can't handle everything, you (ie the one getting the money, 
not the person
paying) update it manually.

(snarky comment: hey, this might make you less eager to change the 
input syntax
without updating convert-ly.  ;)

This probably shouldn't be done as a subscription (instead on a per-job 
basis), and
you probably aren't interested in manually updating scores.  If 
LilyPond had tens of
thousands of users (enough to support a full-time team of developers), 
this is
something we could offer.

Cheers,
- Graham