Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2011-01-04 Thread Keith OHara
Neil Puttock gmail.com> writes: > > On 19 November 2010 02:24, Keith E OHara oco.net> wrote: > > > Now I see the value in a non-naive conversion that would produce something > > like : > >  between-system-padding = 5\mm > >  system-system-spacing #'padding = #(/ between-system-padding staff-spa

Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-19 Thread Neil Puttock
On 19 November 2010 02:24, Keith E OHara wrote: > Now I see the value in a non-naive conversion that would produce something > like : >  between-system-padding = 5\mm >  system-system-spacing #'padding = #(/ between-system-padding staff-space) I like this. :) I was thinking of all sorts of conv

Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-19 Thread Neil Puttock
On 18 November 2010 22:15, Keith E OHara wrote: > But I *like* being naive, Neil. :) > The ugly truth is the units for vertical spacing changed from mm to staff > spaces.  The current convert-ly rule also fails to convert to the new units, > in cases where units are not specified, which is the

Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-18 Thread Keith E OHara
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:15:49 -0800, Keith E OHara wrote: Let's also change paper-defaults-init.ly so that \mm really means millimetres : mm = #(/ 1.0 staff-space) Gosh, no. That was a mistake, because 'indent' and 'top-margin' and such things are still entered in mm (quite sensibly). The

Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-18 Thread Keith E OHara
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:40:08 -0800, Neil Puttock wrote: On 18 November 2010 06:21, Keith E OHara wrote: The attached text contains replacement rules for that section that have been working for me. I'm afraid these changes are too naïve, Keith. But I *like* being naive, Neil. The ugly trut

Re: imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-18 Thread Neil Puttock
On 18 November 2010 06:21, Keith E OHara wrote: > The attached text contains replacement rules for that section that > have been working for me. I'm afraid these changes are too naïve, Keith. Consider the following snippet: \version "2.13.9" \paper { between-system-padding = 10\mm between-

imperfect convert-ly rules

2010-11-17 Thread Keith E OHara
Dear Bug Squad, Convert-ly failed to convert some of my variable settings, because they are not of the form variable = #2, but rather of the form variable = 1\cm. The only problems I have seen are from the section that converts to 2.13.10. The attached text contains replacement rules for t