Re: convert-ly doesn't convert figured bass

[Erik Sandberg]

Thanks, I added this comment to bugs/convert-ly.txt

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 10.51, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Now I understand how your file is supposed to work!
> I attach a version modified to version 2.2. To be able to run convert-ly
> on it, I first replaced all occurencies of '{<' to some dummy like '{#'
> and similarly I replaced '>}' with '&}'. After the conversion, I could
> then change back from '{ #' to '{ <' and from '& }' to '> }'.
> The only other thing I had to update was the text markup with the title,
> see the attached file.
>
>     /Mats
>
> Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>>>"Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >     Mats> I actually don't remember version 1.6 well enough to understand
> > how Mats> your example ever has worked. Did really the FiguredBass
> > context Mats> typeset also ordinary music at that time?
> >
> > No, it didn't typeset the music, but it ignored it except for the
> > lengths.  So once you had the bass line entered, you just found the
> > notes with the figures on them and added them.
> >
> >     Mats> Nowadays, the idea is to have a separate FiguredBass context
> > which Mats> only contains the figures.
> >
> > But then you have to tell it (again) what the lengths of the notes
> > between the figures are.  And proofread that again.
> >
> >     Mats> Another possibility would be to use text markup commands
> > instead, Mats> see for example
> >     Mats>
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-10/msg00352.html
> >
> > If that's what the input/test/figured-bass-alternate.ly  example is
> > doing, I tried it and wasn't able to get it to work.  That is, the
> > example file works, and as long as I'm only adding one figure to a
> > note, it works in my file, but when I try to add two figures, like
> > this:
> >
> >          f_\markup { \column <6 5>}
> >
> > lily tells me:
> >
> >
> > Now processing: `testfigures-markup.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > /home/lconrad/music/telemann/solo5/testfigures-markup.ly:24:30: error:
> > syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting '<': f_\markup { \column <
> >                               6 5>}
> >
> > /home/lconrad/music/telemann/solo5/testfigures-markup.ly:24:33: error:
> > Have to be in Lyric mode for lyrics: f_\markup { \column <6 5
> >
> >                                  >}
> >
> > /home/lconrad/music/telemann/solo5/testfigures-markup.ly:24:34: error:
> > syntax error, unexpected '}':
> >
> > }
> >
> > I'm attaching the test file.  Obviously I have the syntax wrong, but
> > it looks to me like what the example's doing.
> >
> >
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