Re: Change to \rest markup in 2.23

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
>> Le 20/07/2022 à 05:57, David F. a écrit :
>>> In 2.23, the rest markup command changed from taking a string to taking a 
>>> duration.
>>>
>>> \version "2.22"
>>> \markup \rest #"4.."
>>>
>>> \version "2.23"
>>> \markup \rest { 4.. }
>>>
>>> It would be nice if this change were backward compatible, at least
>>> for a version or two.
>>
>>
>> LilyPond's general policy is that backwards-incompatible syntax
>> changes are OK as long as a convert-ly rule is provided to update
>> input files automatically.
>>
>> Well, in this case there is no convert-ly rule ... I'll fix that soon.
>
> I was "what?!?!?" about this but then the convert-ly rule I did was for
> \note in a quite earlier version.  It's probably reasonably easy to just
> copy and adapt that rule.

I'll do that.

-- 
David Kastrup