Re: convert-ly

[Stewart Holmes]

Sorry, using 2.8.0 here.

To find which version to convert to, did you just use trial & error?

Cheers,
Stewart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
To: "Stewart Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: convert-ly


> Please always tell what LilyPond version you use.
>
> Using 2.8.5, I tried to convert the file and noticed that it
> was the conversion between versions 2.5.18 and 2.5.21 that required manual 
> intervention. Therefore, you can do convert-ly --to=2.5.18 ...
> Manually edit the file and add
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  2 4)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  3 4)
> below #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  1 4)
> and change the version number in the file to 2.5.21.
> Then, just run convert-ly again and it will do the conversion
> from 2.5.21 to the current version without any further problems.
> Note that I haven't tried to actually process the file, so there
> may be some further problems that convert-ly didn't handle at all.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Quoting Stewart Holmes <address@hidden>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use convert-ly to update 
> > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BeethovenLv/O27/moonlight1/moonlight1.ly. 
> > However, when I do, I'm given some nasty errors, which don't really mean 
> > a lot to me. My question... is it worth the time trying to tinker with 
> > the source file to get convert-ly to accept it, or should I just convert 
> > it manually?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stewart