Re: Flat trills don't work in Lilypond 2.11

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you change the first line of your file to
\version "2.11.0"
and use convert-ly to update the file syntax, you will get a pretty 
informative
message about this syntax change and what you have to do about it (even 
though
convert-ly unfortunately isn't clever enough to do the change 
automatically).

Read at the end of this email if you cannot figure it out yourself.

  /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:
> I believe that the syntax of #'edge-text changed, but I can't see an 
> entry in the NEWS file for this.  Still, try recreated this tweak 
> using the 2.11 docs on Text spanners.  (or possible the "Text and line 
> spanners" docs)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> Mark Nixon wrote:
> > > I'm not top posting.
> >
> > %% the standard solution for producing flat trills (which works in 
> > 2.10.33) no
> > longer works in 2.11 (seen in versions 2.11.14 + but also present in 
> > 2.11.34
> >
> > \version "2.11.34"
> > \paper{ ragged-right=##t }
> >
> >
> > trillFlat = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.trill" \super \flat }
> >
> > \relative c''' {
> >    \override TrillSpanner #'edge-text = #(cons trillFlat "" )
> >    a'1 ( \startTrillSpan |
> >    a2 ) \stopTrillSpan  a2 |
> > }

The syntax to use in version 2.11.15 or later is:
  \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = \trillFlat