Re: Issue 518 in lilypond: \oldaddlyrics broken

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

    Mats> Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> 
    Hanwenn> Convert manually to use \lyricsto
    >> 
    >> Is that better than \addlyrics?
    >> 
    Mats> Well, \lyricsto offers much more flexibility, so even if it's slightly
    Mats> more difficult
    Mats> to learn how to use it, you will probably come across situations where
    Mats> \addlyrics
    Mats> cannot be used, so I would recommend to get used to using \lyricsto.

But not where \oldaddlyrics was used, surely?

The manual conversion I've been doing when convert-ly insists on using
the broken \oldaddlyrics (which is clearly a bug, since Hanwenn states
that it won't be fixed) is:

    <<
        \oldaddlyrics
        \context Staff="default"
        {
            \voicedefault 
        }
        \context Lyrics="default" 
        <<
          { \wordsdefaultVA }
        >>
    >>

to:

    <<
        \context Staff="default"
        {
            \voicedefault 
        }
        \addlyrics  { \wordsdefaultVA }
    >>

This is pretty straightforward, and could be scripted for the
real-world case, although maybe not by convert-ly for the completely
general case.   Is there some reason why this isn't as good as the
equivalent \lyricsto solution?  

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