Hi Federico, I believe you are trying to automate a set of translations, correct? If so, here's a way to do it in perl that avoids all the shell convolutions. I assume you do know perl. If not, always worth knowing for this sort of quick work.
Just add the translations to the hash table in the script. The virtue of this small tool is that it will tell you if you missed any. Reads file from stdin. Outputs to stdout. You can figure how to process the whole directory. There's a hundred ways to do this. Some people like to open all the files in the perl script. I prefer to keep it simple. Hope this may be useful for now and in the future. Andrew == snip #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @ref; # translation table my %translations = ( 'Automatic beams' => 'Automatic Beams in Italian', 'Stems' => 'Stems in Italian', ); while (<>) { if (@ref = /\@ref\{(.+)\}/) { if (exists $translations{$ref[0]}) { s/$ref[0]/$translations{$ref[0]}/; } else { print STDERR "no translation for $ref[0]", "\n"; } } print; } == snip _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel