Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:58 -0700 > "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You do raise a lot of interesting points though. I'm not the best >> person to address these concerns though. > > No he doesn't. At le

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHYWHY WHY

2008-08-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:58 AM On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:58 -0700 "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You do raise a lot of interesting points though. I'm not the best person to address these concerns though. No he doesn't. At least, he hasn't raised any n

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:58 -0700 "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do raise a lot of interesting points though. I'm not the best > person to address these concerns though. No he doesn't. At least, he hasn't raised any new points, nor anything that we haven't considered. 2.12

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Steve Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't get it. If you have an archive like Mutopia, where there are > thousands of files and dozens of contributors, and mixed dependencies on > versions, running conver-ly doesn't work. > > It doesn't work because two

RE: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
> This has been discussed numerous times on the mailing list. Check the > archives. > > Handling syntax changes such as \compressMusic --> \scaleDurations are > easily handled by convert-ly, since there is no change in structure of > the input file. Simply use

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
eaven's sake leave the old syntax alone so that > existing files will still compile. > > This has been discussed numerous times on the mailing list. Check the archives. Handling syntax changes such as \compressMusic --> \scaleDurations are easily handled by convert-ly, since the

Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like Mutopia. You have no idea how the lack of input grammar stability undermines efforts

Re: compressMusic causes error

2008-06-30 Thread Stefan Thomas
omas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Kieren, with the help of the german sidux-forum I succeded with: > > find . -iname '*.ly' -exec perl -pi -e > > 's/compressMusic/scaleDurations/g' {} \; > > Hope it can help other users. > > >

Re: compressMusic causes error

2008-06-30 Thread Graham Percival
x27;*.ly' -exec perl -pi -e > 's/compressMusic/scaleDurations/g' {} \; > Hope it can help other users. > > 2008/6/29 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Stefan, > > > > > > I don't know, what could be wrong with this

Re: compressMusic causes error

2008-06-30 Thread John Mandereau
Stefan Thomas wrote: > Hi Kieren, with the help of the german sidux-forum I succeded with: > find . -iname '*.ly' -exec perl -pi -e > 's/compressMusic/scaleDurations/g' {} \; > Hope it can help other users. Why don't you simply use convert-ly?

Re: compressMusic causes error

2008-06-30 Thread Stefan Thomas
Hi Kieren, with the help of the german sidux-forum I succeded with: find . -iname '*.ly' -exec perl -pi -e 's/compressMusic/scaleDurations/g' {} \; Hope it can help other users. 2008/6/29 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Stefan, > > > I don

Re: compressMusic causes error

2008-06-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, I don't know, what could be wrong with this snippet: \version "2.11.49" \relative { \compressMusic #' (1 . 2 ) {c4 c g' g a a g2 } } Is it a bug of the version 2.11.49? In the NEWS section, you'll see that \compressMusic has been renamed \sca

compressMusic causes error

2008-06-29 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypondusers, I don't know, what could be wrong with this snippet: \version "2.11.49" \relative { \compressMusic #' (1 . 2 ) {c4 c g' g a a g2 } } Is it a bug of the version 2.11.49? ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: \compressMusic: please ignore

2006-01-08 Thread andrea valle
Very sorry, checked again, I forgot {} -a- \new Staff { \time 3/4 \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(9 . 8) \compressMusic #'(2 . 3) \repeat unfold 3 { c8[ c c] } | c4. c4. c4. | c

\compressMusic: strange behaviour in example

2006-01-08 Thread andrea valle
x27;es the code: \version "2.6.4" \relative c' { << \new Staff { \time 3/4 c4 c c | c c c | c c c | } \new Staff { \time 3/4 \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(9 . 8) \compressMusic #'(2 .

Re: \compressMusic

2005-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I've done a slight modification of the documentation, to appear in the next 2.7.x version. It reads: ... The latter is done with `\compressMusic', which is used similar to `\times', but does not create a tuplet bracket. The syntax is \compressMusic #'(NUMERATOR . DENOMINATOR)

Re: \compressMusic \grace note woes...

2005-10-04 Thread Trent Johnston
Thank you once again Mats... Does this ever come up enough to be documented somwhere?? Trent - Original Message - From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trent Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re:

Re: \compressMusic \grace note woes...

2005-10-04 Thread Pocentek Gauvain
y... Looks like the grace note > problem with beginning a > score with a tuplet is also a problem with using > \compressMusic > > I've put in the blank grace notes in the other parts > but it doesn't seem to > help..

Re: \compressMusic \grace note woes...

2005-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
grace note problem with beginning a score with a tuplet is also a problem with using \compressMusic I've put in the blank grace notes in the other parts but it doesn't seem to help.. Any help or hints appreciated ye

Re: \compressMusic \grace note woes...

2005-10-04 Thread Trent Johnston
Yes it's me again... Still find this tricky... Looks like the grace note problem with beginning a score with a tuplet is also a problem with using \compressMusic I've put in the blank grace notes in the other parts but it doesn't seem to help.. Any help or hints apprec

\compressMusic

2005-10-03 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks Mats... I re-read the section about this and found that the only reference to \times was "The latter is done with \compressMusic, which is similar to \times, but does not create a tuplet bracket." To me this doesn't describe very accurately that you use \compressMusic