Re: Change to \rest markup in 2.23

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mi., 20. Juli 2022 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
>
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'll do that.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Hi David,

there was some off-list discussion already.
Looks I forgot to do some convertrule with
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/627

Though, c/p and adjust the rule for note-markup will probably not work.
At least for me this rule looks broken:

$ cat atest-116.ly
\version "2.18.0" \markup \note #"4."

$ ../../../lilypond-git/build/out/bin/convert-ly -e atest-116.ly
convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.23.11

convert-ly: Processing `atest-116.ly'...
Applying conversion: 2.19.2, 2.19.7, 2.19.11, 2.19.16, 2.19.22,
2.19.24, 2.19.28, 2.19.29, 2.19.32, 2.19.39, 2.19.40, 2.19.46,
2.19.49, 2.20.0, 2.21.0, 2.21.2, 2.23.1, 2.23.2, 2.23.3, 2.23.4,
2.23.5, 2.23.6, 2.23.7, 2.23.8, 2.23.9, 2.23.10, 2.23.11

$ cat atest-116.ly
\version "2.23.11" \markup \note #"4."

Cheers,
  Harm