Re: Lilypond 2.16 and 2.18 incompatibility for \relative withoutabsolute note outside the score

[Trevor Daniels]

Mark Veltzer wrote Tuesday, November 04, 2014 4:02 PM


> Unfortunately I cannot use convert-ly, since on a large project such as I am
> working on I am using an extra pre-processor before handing out the output
> to lilypond.
> This means that my "source" files are not in lilypond format but only
> contain snipplets of lilypond code.
> [snip]
> A better way would have been to make the new lilypond support more features
> but retain old behaviour until old behavior goes away gradually.
> If that was the case I would not need to edit my files.

LilyPond _does_ still support the old \relative syntax with an absolute
pitch prefixing the music, but it no longer supports the feature that
has been deprecated for 7 years.

Perhaps your pre-processor or a simple editor will be able to change
all instances of "\relative" to "\relative c'", assuming you have used the
deprecated syntax consistently.

Trevor