Thanks Curt, Unfortunately, I have already manually edited to the extent that tweaking the generating program would result in a lot of lost work. Typically I try not to edit post generation, but that was not possible in this particular case.
I am on arch linux. And yes, I am sure it would be possible to do it through the terminal, but I am trying to avoid destructively editing the files (simply out of fear even though I could always roll back). I would be replacing only a few unicode characters, but many, many occurrences. Best, Michael Mar 6, 2024, 14:22 by pla...@fishlet.com: > Michael, > > You mentioned that the score is programmatically generated. If so, can > you modify the generating program and regenerate the score? > > Otherwise, a more complete example would be nice. Are you trying to do a > simple string replacement of a few (unicode) characters, or are you > trying to replace larger chunks of LilyPond code? > > It would also help to know what operating system environment you are > using. The answer may be to make a copy of the whole tree and run a > search/replace utility recursively on all the files. > > Regards, > Curt > > On 3/6/2024 10:56 AM, Michael Winter via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > >> I have a programmatically generated score and am now realizing that I >> want to make a small tweak to text markups that are throughout the >> score in multiple files that are included at multiple levels. >> >> " 1↑" replace with " 1" (e.g. remove the up arrow when it is preceded >> by a 1) >> >> Is it possible to do this with a global search and replace on compile >> such that I do not need to edit each individual file (of which there >> are hundreds) manually? >> >> I could do this through the terminal, but I would rather not >> destructively edit the files. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Best, >> >> Michael >>
