Re: problems upgrading input files from lilypond 1.6.6

[Mats Bengtsson]

It seems that the situations where convert-ly fails on your input
files is

- Where you put the slur end on another line than the following note:
     ef4.( )
     f!8
  If instead you had written
     ef4.(
     ) f!8
   convert-ly would correctly have produced
     ef4.(
     f!8 )
   As you can see, slur endings as well as all other kind of
  annotations are now put after the note they refer to.

- Where you use the old text markup commands, like
  ^#'(columns((music "scripts-trill"))) or
  ^#'(columns((music "accidentals--1")))
  (by the way, I don't understand why you used columns here)
  You can read more about the new markup commands at

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html
  The two examples above can be replaced by
  ^\markup{ \musicglyph scripts-trill }
  and
  ^\markup{ \flat }
  respectively.

See also 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html
for a quick overview of what has changed.

   /Mats

Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I did a bit of work with lilypond 1.6.6 14 months ago and have an
> unfinished composition typeset in it that I'd like to go back to.  But
> I no longer have lilypond 1.6.6 installed, and it doesn't build on my
> Gentoo Linux system (alas, C++ compiler problems); and lilypond 2.2.4,
> even when I run "convert-ly -f 1.6.6 -e " on my .ly files, fails on
> them with numerous syntax errors.
>
> The syntax seems to have changed a great deal in a single year, which
> is no doubt is great for the project's future, but is rough on
> occasional users like me.  There isn't much documentation on how to
> upgrade input files, either (but I'm not complaining -- I appreciate
> all the energy that is going into the project).  The result is that
> I'm a bit lost, and I'd be very grateful for any pointers on what
> particular kinds of changes I should be looking for.
>
> The input files in question (in their 1.6.6 version) are viewable
> here:
>
>   http://cvs.smullyan.org/viewcvs.cgi/trio/
>
> They are quite short.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Jacob Smullyan
>
>
>
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