As for the more difficult things ; they are -as said- more difficult. IMO, the proper attitude is to be glad that more difficult hacks are possible, and accept that automatic language conversion can not always deal with them.
A good tool to look at would be Antlr. If someone wants to maintain a convert-ly (not one of the main lilypond developers) it's well worth investigating. Just bear in mind it's about to go a major rev to v3.
I'm learning it for another project, and it's got some pretty neat abilities, such as remembering all your whitespacing :-) It would, actually, probably be one of the best tools to use, and it's Open Source (written in Java :-(
Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999
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