RE: getting rid of ' and , in older scores

[Nick Payne]

But if you remove all instances of ' and , then you're assuming that all
notes are less than a fifth away from the preceding note - most unlikely.

Nick

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> Behalf Of David Bobroff
> Sent: Friday, 19 June 2009 3:58 PM
> To: Father Gordon Gilbert
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> Subject: Re: getting rid of ' and , in older scores
> 
> jEdit, or any decent editor for that matter, has a 'search/replace'
> function.  Can't you simply search for ' and , and replace with
> <nothing>?  This would cost you a few seconds per file.  I imagine that
> you could also use sed to do this even faster.
> 
> -David
> 
> Father Gordon Gilbert wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've quite a number of older scores I've worked on over the years,
> starting
> > with version 2.2.0 (and some from Mutopia even older than that.  I
> have
> > successfully used convert-ly on them to bring syntax up-to-date.  But
> I did
> > many of them before \relative was as easy-to-use as it is now -- even
> just
> > using ' and '' and , and ,, to indicate octave ranges.
> >
> > I'd like to put \relative at the top of all my part sections, and
> delete all
> > the octave markers.  Is there any *elegant* way to go through these
> scores
> > and eliminate all of the ' and , without deleting each and every one?
> >
> > I'm using LilyPond 2.12.1 on either Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Jaunty,
> with
> > jEdit 4.3pre16 and LilyPondTool.
> >
> > I always appreciate the valuable advice see on this list.
> >
> > Blessings,
> >
> > Gordon+
> >
> >
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