Thank you, Simon. Now it's clear.
The manual is a little bit confusing: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/working-on-input-files "it allows automatic updating of the input file as LilyPond syntax changes" I assumed this "automatic update" is done by Lilypond itself (at compile time, on-the-fly), but it's for the benefit of auxiliary scripts like convert-ly and other systems. Regards. On 19/06/16 03:47, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hi Harald, > > On 18.06.2016 19:40, Harald Christiansen wrote: >> (Now I am confused about the '\version'. Looks to me like it doesn't do >> what I understand it's supposed to do. But that's another story.) > > Basically, \version is only for maintenance purposes. LilyPond doesn’t > actually do anything different based on it. It should reflect the > version of the syntax you used for writing the input file. Now > convert-ly will know from where to start its work, and you (or > Frescobaldi) will know which LilyPond version to use for compiling it. > > Best, Simon -- Nihil verus. Omnia possibilia. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
