Re: bugs/convert-ly.txt

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 11.09, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> I think the main problem that convert-ly cannot handle is the old
> text markup commands. Since that syntax used parenthesis, convert-ly
> will think that the last right parenthesis is a slur end and move it
> to after the next note. 

Note also that if there are no nested parentheses, convert-ly can succeed.

> There are several examples in the mailing list 
> archives. I think the best way to document these problems is to show
> some examples of input, convert-ly output and the correct new syntax.

Could be good also, to include a notice about the best method to convert the
files (in which order things should be done in order to best compensate for 
convert-ly's shortcomings)

Erik