This is a great utility! I like the ability to export syntax
highlighting to HTML.
For changing a group of files, I would try:
ly --in-place reformat *.ly
This will modify the files in place and give you a backup of the file
with the filename suffixed with a "~".
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Knute Snortum
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Knute Snortum
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:28 PM David Menéndez Hurtado
<davidmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 21:59, Fr. Samuel Springuel <rpspring...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I’ve developed a large collection of music files over several years have
>> recently noticed that there are some stylistic formatting deviations in some
>> of them and so I’m looking for a tool that will check all my files for these
>> problems (and ideally fix them). I can do this in Frescobaldi using
>> Tools->Code Formatting->Format, but I’m looking for a command-line option
>> that I can use to fix my files en masse (and eventually incorporate into a
>> check-in hook on my git repositories to prevent this from happening again).
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to pull this off?
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> pip install python-ly
> ly "reformat" input.ly > output.ly
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> That runs exactly the same that Frescobaldi does. More documentation:
> https://pypi.org/project/python-ly/
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> I found it poking around the Frescobaldi source, found something called
> reformat
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/blob/f01cdbe2baee93f3ab361647a42885a1cfab6b40/frescobaldi_app/reformat.py#L46
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> That calls ly.reformat.reformat
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly/blob/master/ly/reformat.py#L102
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> /David.
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