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Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolut
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Jim Long |
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Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score |
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Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:32:04 -0800 |
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If you need to make lots of edits to instances of \relative in
your source code, then:
1) sed(1) is your friend;
2) that's what DEFINE's are for.
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:02:21PM +0000, Mark Veltzer wrote:
> Unfortunately I cannot use convert-ly, since on a large project such as I am
> working on I am using an extra pre-processor before handing out the output
> to lilypond.
> This means that my "source" files are not in lilypond format but only
> contain snipplets of lilypond code.
> I actually imagine that every large scale lilypond project would do
> something like this.
> You can check this out at https://github.com/veltzer/openbook
> What I'm basically saying here is that the whole approach of convert-ly is
> dubious since it assumes that people are using lilypond a certain
> straightforward way.
> I understand the motivation of convert-ly: it allows you guys to break
> backwards compatibility. But you are still breaking backwards compatibility
> and it hurts.
> A better way would have been to make the new lilypond support more features
> but retain old behaviour until old behavior goes away gradually.
> If that was the case I would not need to edit my files.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Mark Veltzer, 2014/11/04
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative withoutabsolute note outside the score, Trevor Daniels, 2014/11/04
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score,
Jim Long <=
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Federico Bruni, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Federico Bruni, 2014/11/05
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- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Mark Veltzer, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Mark Veltzer, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Federico Bruni, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Mark Veltzer, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Shane Brandes, 2014/11/05
- Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative without absolute note outside the score, Mark Veltzer, 2014/11/05