I used to use that a lot, especially when the conversions did weird things due to the amount of workarounds i used to use before the program really became stellar. In any case, it has been very useful, and may yet still be.
-Shane Brandes On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 12:13 PM Mats Bengtsson <matsboxergr...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Sorry, my email client keeps using the wrong From: address) > > /Mats > On 2023-03-04 08:09, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Folks, > > > who has ever used option `--show-rules` of `convert-ly`, except for > being curious what this option does? > > In https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1854 we are > discussing whether it would make sense to remove it. > > I've definitely used it a number of times over the years, for example to > get a brief overview of recent syntax changes. Another use case is when > trying to figure out the history of when a particular change happened and > what changed, either since I have an old file myself or there is some > question on the mailing list or I discover some "new" (to me) feature, > since that can provide a pointer to which version of the Changes document > to look at to learn more about the change. > > I know that you developers rather search directly in the git history or > the issues history, but there it may be hard to know what to search for and > even with the correct search term you might get too many hits to be able to > quickly sort out which is relevant. On the other hand convert-ly -s allows > me to quickly browse through the history. > > Regarding the discussion in the merge request, I don't see any reason to > translate these messages. I wouldn't expect a lot of users who use the > feature and don't know English sufficiently well to be able to decipher > what it's about, especially since the Lilypond syntax itself is language > independent. > > /Mats >
