Re: Change to \rest markup in 2.23

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 20/07/2022 à 05:57, David F. a écrit :
>> In 2.23, the rest markup command changed from taking a string to taking a 
>> duration.
>>
>> \version "2.22"
>> \markup \rest #"4.."
>>
>> \version "2.23"
>> \markup \rest { 4.. }
>>
>> It would be nice if this change were backward compatible, at least
>> for a version or two.
>
>
> LilyPond's general policy is that backwards-incompatible syntax
> changes are OK as long as a convert-ly rule is provided to update
> input files automatically.
>
> Well, in this case there is no convert-ly rule ... I'll fix that soon.

I was "what?!?!?" about this but then the convert-ly rule I did was for
\note in a quite earlier version.  It's probably reasonably easy to just
copy and adapt that rule.

-- 
David Kastrup