Re: convert-ly 2.4.3 shortcomings

[Mats Bengtsson]

This weekend, I spent some more time on convert-ly and have now
submitted another patch to the CVS server that does a somewhat
more clever conversion for scores older then version 1.9.0.

More exactly:

- Most text markups should now be converted correctly and those that
  are not converted correctly should at least not provide syntactically
  incorrect code.
- When converting beams and slurs to the new postfix syntax, all
  Scheme expressions and strings are left untouched. This used to be
  one of the major problems.

Problems that remain in the conversion 1.6->2.0:

- Doesn't always convert figured bass correctly, specifically things
  like {< >}.
- In the old markup syntax, it was possible to group a number of
  markup commands together within parentheses, e.g.
  -#'((bold italic) "string")
  This will incorrectly be converted into
  -\markup{{\bold italic} "string"}
  instead of the correct
  -\markup{\bold \italic "string"}

   /Mats


Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> A few days ago, I made a modification of convert-ly for the
> latest 2.5.xx version to try to overcome one of the major problems
> when converting from scores made before 1.9.0, namely that the
> old markup syntax was only converted in the most simple special
> cases and that some of the parentheses of the old markup syntax
> were handled as if they were slur indications and moved to after
> the next note.
>
>     /Mats
>
> Quoting Fairchild <address@hidden>:
>
>
> > Graham -
> >
> > That's good!
> >
> > Now, how to get it populated and linked from the documentation page?
> >
> >                                - Bruce
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:26 PM
> > To: Fairchild
> > Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; 'Mats Bengtsson'
> > Subject: Re: convert-ly 2.4.3 shortcomings
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6-May-05, at 1:48 PM, Fairchild wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Another option might be to provide a convenient compendium of
> > > shortcomings
> > > somewhere.  Let users discover them, but scattered in the archives
> > > isn't
> > > very convenient.
> >
> > See the 2.5 manual, "updating with convert-ly".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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