On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steve Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <rant> > > You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for > people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely > no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like > Mutopia. You have no idea how the lack of input grammar stability > undermines efforts for wider adoption of Lilypond for projects like > Gutenburg and Wikipedia. > > If you want to change the syntax, fine, add the new, update the > documentation, but for heaven's sake leave the old syntax alone so that > existing files will still compile. > > </rant>
This has been discussed numerous times on the mailing list. Check the archives. Handling syntax changes such as \compressMusic --> \scaleDurations are easily handled by convert-ly, since there is no change in structure of the input file. Simply use the following command: $ convert-ly -e oldfile.ly and your file's \version declaration will be updated along with the syntax. HTH, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
