At 07:22 03/06/2021 +0200, Hans Aikema wrote:
the convert-ly script does not interpret wildcards, but requires the
file explicitly. The way you call it makes it look for a file that
is named *.ly (which can never be present as * is not an allowed
character for a filename)
Thanks for this.
As documented on
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/usage/invoking-convert_002dly
you need to use the 'forfiles' windows command to run the conversion
for multiple files using a wildcard:
forfiles /s /M *.ly /c "cmd /c convert-ly.py -e @file"
But that resource claims that this command is required only for
searching subdirectories of the current directory, and that
convert-ly.py -e *.ly
works for all .ly files in a directory.
Can we agree, then, that this is wrong and that (in Windows) the
forfiles command but without the /s parameter is required even for
handling all .ly files in a single directory? Oh, and that the copy
of convert-ly installed in version 2.22 in Windows has to have its
name corrected (to convert-ly.py) for anything to work?
Brian Barker
