Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

[Paul Morris]

Urs Liska wrote
> The issue is that the LSR file is written for 2.14, and the syntax has 
> changed in the meantime: \markuplines is now \markuplist.
> That's what David is referring to with his advice to use convert-ly.

The only indication that I could find on the LSR site that the snippets are
for LilyPond 2.14 is at the very bottom of the "contributing" page.  Not
somewhere that most would come across it.  

Would it make sense to include a version statement at the top of the code
for each snippet?  Maybe with a comment on using convert-ly for later
versions of LilyPond:

\version "2.14.0"
% Use convert-ly before using this code with later versions of LilyPond.  
% See the Usage manual for how to use convert-ly.

(And/or somewhere more prominent like in the header or footer of each page?)

Especially since the LSR will soon be two stable versions behind 2.18, and
it is a big job to update all the snippets to 2.18, and/or a bigger job to
get the LSR to support multiple versions of LilyPond...  adding a version
statement, in some automated way, would be a relatively simple step to help
people know what they need to do to use the snippets.

Just a suggestion,
-Paul





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