On 2023-03-04 19:15, Werner LEMBERG
wrote:
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, [...] 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.I agree, thus suggesting the following: * Remove translation marks (will soon push this to the above merge request). * Replace `--show-rules` with a more common `--verbose` option to show rule descriptions while `convert-ly` is running. Right now, `--show-rules` only emits the rules but doesn't do a conversion at the same time, which is rather useless IMHO. Not sure whether my Python abilities are good enough to implement this feature; anyway, this will be a separate merge request. Werner
I don't fully agree with your second item. In the use cases I described, I have used "convert-ly -s" without any input file, to see the list of changes, so please keep a possibility to easily list the rules without an input file.
/Mats
