Re: Two possible bugs bugging me

[Jean Abou Samra]

> Le 26 juil. 2022 à 22:46, John Ramsey <ramseyman1@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> 
> So, is this Frescobaldi thing something that can convert the apostrophes that 
> are scattered throughout the old lyric files I'm working from?


You could use search/replace, which works in many editors, including 
Frescobaldi.




>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 4:24 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> Le 26 juil. 2022 à 22:16, John Ramsey <ramseyman1@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks. I was just trying to do what I used to do before version 22. I 
>>> could transfer my musical thoughts to a word document anywhere I happened 
>>> to be, not just my own computer.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You can edit raw text on any computer. On Windows, the Windows Notepad fits 
>> the bill. On Linux, the default graphical raw text editor varies but is 
>> often Gedit. On macOS, the Textedit app works if I recall correctly.
>> 
>> 
>>> And what's this? No more LilyPad in 7 months??
>>> Bari
>> 
>> 
>> Yes. You’ll need either an editor with support for LilyPond (there are many, 
>> see https://lilypond.org/easier-editing.html) or to run LilyPond on the 
>> command line.
>> 
>> Everything’s a tradeoff, and this one gave us an enormously more reliable 
>> setup that allows releases not to be blocked because cross-compilation would 
>> not work, as happened in the past. Also, it produces 64-bit binaries, so 
>> they’ll be faster.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 4:00 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > 2. I do some of my rough drafts in MSWord and transfer the notations to
>>>> > LilyPad. BUT as of version 22, I have a problem with quotation marks and
>>>> > apostrophes. MSWord uses curly quote marks and curly apostrophes as a
>>>> > default, which I would hate to change. And LilyPad is now only 
>>>> > recognizing
>>>> > straight ones. Curly commas are OK, but I have to manually change the
>>>> > quotes and apostrophes after transferring the text to the .ly document, 
>>>> > in
>>>> > order to prevent strings of weird code. I always miss a couple, which
>>>> > drives me nuts. (I'm halfway there as it is.) Can this be put back the 
>>>> > way
>>>> > it was?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Simple: don’t use MS Word to edit LilyPond code. A rich text editor is not 
>>>> a good tool to edit raw text. Taking an analogy, this request sounds a bit 
>>>> as if you were trying to cut bread with your fingernails and complained 
>>>> that your nail varnish prevented you from doing that. Just don’t do it 
>>>> that way :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have any particular reason not to use LilyPad all way through?
>>>> 
>>>> At any rate, LilyPad is gone in 2.23, we now only distribute binaries of 
>>>> LilyPond, without a minimalistic GUI. Instead, we recommend editors like 
>>>> Frescobaldi. I strongly recommend you try it, for me it was a relief.
>>>> 
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Jean
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> > 
>>>> > Respectfully submitted,
>>>> > Bari Ramsey
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