Re: [Denemo-devel] Error opening old score

[Andreas Schneider]

Thank you. Yes, it seems that after the change of mensural barlines some
time back, the only option to re-activate a score with the old
directives is to manually remove those directives (at least I do not
know any other way).

Andreas


Am 25.12.2014 um 18:31 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Thu, 2014-12-25 at 18:13 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>> Thank you for your help. I thought I looked through all directives but I
>> did not see that one before (i.e. after deleting the two mensural
>> barlines directives under score directives). Maybe I just looked under
>> Score->Edit Score directives. Is there a way to show all directives
>> without having to try out all possible categories or guess where it may
>> be?
> 
> I think this sounds like something that could be done fairly easily -
> there is already something for directives in the music (standalone,
> note, chord, timesig ... directives) so something that collected up all
> the tags for the others can't be too hard. I've submitted a bug report
> for this.
> 
> 
>>  Or still better, is there a way to show the directive causing a
>> lilypond error?
> 
> Well, this error was failing to report back at all, on my machine the
> typesetting hung. I exported the LilyPond and ran LilyPond on it (using
> Frescobaldi) to see the error message.
> I think the LilyPond output could be augmented to include a comment
> saying which type and tag was issuing which bit of LilyPond text in the
> non-music parts of the score.
> I've created a bug report for this too.
> 
>>
>> My dream would be to open an old score and it works at once without
>> having to look through all possible directives what might cause an error.
> 
> That's been my intention all along. Did the Mensural Barlines command
> change without any way of coping with old versions? 
> 
> Richard