Zone Dremik <dremik_z...@yahoo.com> writes: > Thank you David, Marnen, David and Carl for your excellent suggestions and > helpful examples. (I will definitely be using more variables in the future.) > For the convert.ly issue, your recommendations inspired me to try using BBE. > The multi-file search & replace function worked very well (this was with the > free version of BBE, so I was very impressed). > > Further note: > I ran a few more of the older files through convert.ly and found that it is > finding & updating other instances of obsolete syntax, beyond the two that > are missing. > > Here is a code sample, before & after, for a successful convert.ly: > > \version "2.12.2" > \include "english.ly" > \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic > > \version "2.20.0" > \include "english.ly" > \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > > (A side note: By mistake, I ran the compile before convert.ly and was > surprised that the Lilypond 2.20 didn't reject the obsolete syntax. I > definitely don't have any other versions installed on this machine.)
Yes, overrides and reverts are properly converted. It's the naked assignments that seemed too indistinctive to warrant a generic rule for the conversion (there was one used for one-shot conversion of LilyPond's own documentation where one can keep the effects in check). I have it on my to-do list to do something here for the sake of 2.20.1, but I'm currently laboring on getting 2.21.0 out first: that's also urgent. -- David Kastrup
