On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:13, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik> On 7/11/06, Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik> By the way, there are plans to drop the old-lyric-combine > Erik> compatibility altogether, so in order to upgrade to the next > Erik> stable version, you'll have to rewrite all your old-style > Erik> \addlyrics expressions manually. > > >> I'm not sure how this differs from what I have to do now. Do > >> you mean that in addition to breaking multi-verse upgrading, > >> you're also planning to break single-verse upgrading? > > Erik> I think so. The command that used to be \addlyrics, and > Erik> which now is known as \oldaddlyrics, will be > Erik> removed. \lyricsto (and hte new \addlyrics) will be the only > Erik> ways to align lyrics. > > I suppose I should be reading the fine manual more, but I've never > figured out the difference between \oldaddlyrics and \addlyrics. In > any case, my manual conversions use \addlyrics.
\addlyrics will still be supported, only \oldaddlyrics will be junked. So according to what you say below, abc2ly will still work fine. > I've never seen why convert-ly wouldn't be able to write that from the > old output of abc2ly, but instead it writes: The reason why convert-ly can't handle oldaddlyrics, is that it is based on regexps, which makes it very difficult to move stuff far distances (such as across a \context Staff ... expression). -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
