Thanks Hans: that did the trick. I guess I need to practice reading to the end of the section before launching into trial-and-error. :-)
Jerry On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:22 AM Hans Aikema <hans.aik...@aikebah.net> wrote: > > On 3 Jun 2021, at 02:34, JxStarks <jxsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Some progress (cheers!): > Re-naming the file to convert-ly.py enabled my system to treat it like an > executable file. However, now it says it can't open the files: > === > C:\Users\Jerry\Documents\RPC\Music\Christmas>convert-ly.py -e *.ly > convert-ly.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.22.1 > > convert-ly.py: error: *.ly: Unable to open file > convert-ly.py: warning: There was 1 error. > > C:\Users\Jerry\Documents\RPC\Music\Christmas> > === > > There are 34 LilyPond files (all ending with .ly) in this folder. However, > the multi-word names are separated by dashes, as in > "It-Came-Upon-A-Midnight-Clear.ly". Does this confuse convert-ly? > Am I missing something else? > > Jerry > > > Jerry, > > 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) > > 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" > >
