Re: Issue 1971 in lilypond: Slashed flags no longer work

[Neil Puttock]

On 17 October 2011 11:41, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:09:02AM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote:
>> On 17 Oct 2011 07:56, "Peekay Ex" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > However, and this is for Phil: could we not simply 'deprecate' the
>> > snippet(s) like we do with any that won't work (properly) in later
>> > versions, and actually I think it was Mike that a week or so ago
>> > pointed one out to me that was deprecated as of 2.14.x, because the
>> > snippet said 'I am deprecated' in the compiled the docs. Then
>> > eventually I just went back and removed the @snippet ref.
>> >
>> > Sounds pretty standard stuff.
>>
>> The CG's pretty clear on this.  If the snippets are still valid, the correct
>> approach is to move them to snippets/new, with appropriate changes for new
>> syntax.
>
> If the snippets can be automatically converted by convert-ly, then
> don't touch snippets/new/.  We run convert-ly for every lsr import
> for precisely this reason.

Quite, but I understood from Mike that the convert rule doesn't work
for these snippets.

Anyway, the changes are wrong, since he's copied all the texidocs and
%begin verbatim comment into the new snippets.

Cheers,
Neil