Re: English note names generate errors

[James Lowe]

On 11/05/15 16:15, David Kastrup wrote:
>> error: unrecognized string, not in text script or \lyricmode
> That's because the long note names have been changed.  If you had used
> convert-ly for converting the syntax, you'd hopefully not have seen a
> problem ("hopefully" since the conversion rule currently is less than
> perfect and will likely be improved in 2.19.21, probably including the
> results of issue 4372
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4372>.
> 
> LilyPond's Changes section
> <URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index#top>
> states:
> 
> Actually, it does not state anything at all.  Uh, that would likely be
> worth a few words.  The issue introducing this change had been
> issue 4209
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4209> and the
> changes had been present since version 2.19.16.
> 
> The respective discussion (namely none at all) is evenly distributed
> between the issue report itself and the code review at
> <URL:https://codereview.appspot.com/180440043>.

Just for the record (and bug squad) this now has a tracker

https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4388

(just in case it was not clear).

James