PMA <peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Father Gordon Gilbert<fatherg...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in >>> absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time. >>> >>> But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while convert-ly does a >>> good job of changing up the basic syntax, I'd like to know if there's >>> an easy way of getting rid of all the ' and , so the piece can be done >>> in \relative mode. I did "search and replace" on one long piece, >>> which resulted in well over an hour's work fixing octaves. Can this >>> be automated? >> >> This appears on the feature list of the LilyPond editor Frescobaldi >> <URL:http://frescobaldi.org>. >> >> A solution within LilyPond itself would not really help as it would not >> preserve the spacing of your input source. >> > > In Linux at least, you could make the changes *and* preserve > your layout, by calling 'sed' against the .ly file to replace each > " ' " and " , " with a space. something like > > cat <file>.ly | sed "s/[',]/ /g" > FOO > > (That's a guess. Do check out FOO before copying it back in.)
I am afraid that converting to relative mode is more complex than that. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
