Re: [Denemo-devel] Error opening old score

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2014-12-25 at 18:42 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Thank you. Yes, it seems that after the change of mensural barlines some
> time back, the only option

aha! I see a way that Eloi's work on testing could be used to save us
from inadvertently doing this. If you placed a link to your collection
of old scores somewhere under the test directory then when a new release
is coming up you could run the make check command and it would open save
and compare all your scores. (I am speaking very roughly here, exactly
what the command is called I don't know, but this is the gist of Eloi's
work on testing so far).

Eloi, once the holiday season is over, could you comment on how we could
turn this idea into something practical - it would mean any user could
keep an eye on how Denemo developments may be impacting older scores
they have stored away.

Richard



>  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
> 
> 
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