Trevor Daniels wrote:
Eluze wrote Friday, June 26, 2009 7:19 PM
Trevor Daniels wrote:
maybe it should be added in the docs:
I'll do that. I'll also fix the documentation
to avoid misleading people in the Jay was misled.
i think the whole issue comes from the two lines 279 & 280 in
convert-ly.py:
opt_parser = get_option_parser()
(options, args) = opt_parser.parse_args ()
which return the filename split at each blank if it is not enclosed in
triple quotes.
you can verify this by printing these arguments:
print (options, args)
these two lines also appear in the other converting routines (midi2ly,
musicxml2ly, abc2ly, etf2ly) and i have verified that midi2ly also works
when using triple double quotes!
i don't know if anybody could change the behaviour of this routine…?!
Probably not. Splitting at spaces is how the args are parsed.
Yes, but it's also standard convention that it's possible to specify
arguments with spaces in them, by enclosing them in quotes and the
problem here is that this information is lost along the way within the
script.
finally IMO it's worth to mention that calling these routines with a
wildcard is also working (as long as no blank is involved in your
calling
statement):
convert-ly -e *.ly
convert-ly -e "myfiles*.ly"
this will convert all corresponding .ly files, even if they have
blanks in
their name!
There already is an example in the manual showing the use of *.
I think that is probably sufficient.
Yes, but it uses a for ... in ... do syntax that only works in BASH,
whereas
convert-ly -e *.ly
works in all OS:s that I know of.
The main reason to include the more complicated version in the manual is
that convert-ly -e *.ly may fail in situations where you have a large
number of files in the same directory, since then the expanded command
line may get too long. However, this is such a rare case that I find it
questionable to include in the manual (at least to have it as the only
option for *.ly).
/Mats
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