Re: guile 1.6.4, harakiri staves, lily 1.8

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Simon G. P. Bailey" writes:

> i'm also starting to get my teeth into lily 1.8 syntax. as always, the
> output is looking great. :) a suggestion: would it be too hard to hack
> convert-ly to convert prefix notation to postfix notation?

Yes, we will look at conversion to postfix syntax before it becomes
mandatory (in 2.0).  It may need the user's attention, though.

> (also, convert-ly only converts up to 1.7.24 atm).

LilyPond 1.8.0 converts up till 1.7.28; the last syntax change made.

> a question: iirc, HaraKiriStaff context always left the full score in
> the first system (in order to show all instruments, even if only one or
> two are playing). has this been changed? 

This would be desirable behaviour, but I doubt LilyPond ever did this.

> of course my feeble memory may be tricking me here... :)

It would be interesting to find out.  What lilypond version did you
use before?  Do you have a test case?

Jan.

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