Re: a better convert-ly

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Han-Wen Nienhuys 
<address@hidden> writes
> As for the more difficult things ; they are -as said- more
> difficult. IMO, the proper attitude is to be glad that more difficult
> hacks are possible, and accept that automatic language conversion can
> not always deal with them.

A good tool to look at would be Antlr. If someone wants to maintain a 
convert-ly (not one of the main lilypond developers) it's well worth 
investigating. Just bear in mind it's about to go a major rev to v3.

I'm learning it for another project, and it's got some pretty neat 
abilities, such as remembering all your whitespacing :-) It would, 
actually, probably be one of the best tools to use, and it's Open Source 
(written in Java :-(

Cheers,
Wol
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