Thanks Bertalan and Mats. I have managed to get it working now, except for some misaligned lyrics but I can sort those out myself.
To be honest, I was quite amazed that convert-ly was able to convert such an old file with just a single problem. 2008/4/29 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2007-12/msg00156.html for > a brief > instruction on how to do the conversion of \oldaddlyrics by hand. > > /Mats > > > > Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > > > I think it is worth converting. The OldLyricCombineMusic can be easily > solved if you replaced the \oldaddlyrics or whatever not existing command > with the normal current way of adding lyrics. > > > > Bert > > > > Joseph Haig wrote: > > > > > I downloaded a Lilypond 1.4.12 file from > > > http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/partituras.html and run it through > > > convert-ly, which, gave the following output (in addition to the > > > output file): > > > > > > convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.10.33 > > > Processing `old/Ascendens_Christus_In_Altum-1-Kyrie.ly'... > > > Applying conversion: 1.5.33, 1.5.38, 1.5.40, 1.5.49, 1.5.52, 1.5.56, > > > 1.5.58, 1.5.59, 1.5.62, 1.5.67, 1.5.68, 1.5.71, 1.5.72, 1.6.5, 1.7.1, > > > 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.7.13, 1.7.15, > > > 1.7.16, 1.7.17, 1.7.18, 1.7.19, 1.7.22, 1.7.23, 1.7.24, 1.7.28, 1.9.0, > > > 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6, 1.9.7, 1.9.8, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, > > > 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.7, 2.1.10, 2.1.11, 2.1.12, 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 2.1.15, > > > 2.1.16, 2.1.17, 2.1.18, 2.1.19, 2.1.20, 2.1.21, 2.1.22, 2.1.23, > > > 2.1.24, 2.1.25, 2.1.26, 2.1.27, 2.1.28, 2.1.29, 2.1.30, 2.1.31, > > > 2.1.33, 2.1.34, 2.1.36, 2.2.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, > > > Not smart enough to convert textheight > > > Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually. > > > Page layout has been changed, using paper size and margins. > > > textheight is no longer used. > > > 2.3.4, 2.3.6, 2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 2.3.16, 2.3.17, > > > 2.3.18, 2.3.22, 2.3.23, 2.3.24, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, > > > 2.5.12, 2.5.13, 2.5.17, 2.5.18, 2.5.21, 2.5.25, 2.6.0, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, > > > 2.7.2, 2.7.4, 2.7.6, 2.7.10, 2.7.11, 2.7.12, 2.7.13, 2.7.14, 2.7.15, > > > 2.7.22, 2.7.24, 2.7.28, 2.7.29, 2.7.30, 2.7.31, 2.7.32, 2.7.32, > > > 2.7.36, 2.7.40, 2.9.4, 2.9.6, 2.9.9, 2.9.11, 2.9.13, 2.9.16, 2.9.19, > > > 2.10.0, 2.10.10 > > > > > > There is a warning, but doesn't seem to be any indication of anything > > > seriously wrong. However, running lilypond on the output file I get: > > > > > > error: can't find music object: OldLyricCombineMusic > > > > > > What would I need to tweak to get this working properly? Or is 1.4.12 > > > just so old that it is not worth converting? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > lilypond-user mailing list > > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ============================================= > Mats Bengtsson > Signal Processing > School of Electrical Engineering > Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) > SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM > Sweden > Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 > Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe > ============================================= > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user