Re: Addition to the AU

[Mats Bengtsson]

Till Rettig wrote:
> Now you have to issue the command convert-ly on your file. The option -e
> means, that you changes convert-ly makes are directly written into the 
> file,
> so save your file first under a new name before you issue the command. 
> You
> can for instance add the LilyPond version number to the file's name.
> Now run the command itself:
> convert-ly -e myfile.ly

Two comments on this paragraph:
- This is nothing specific to Windows
- If you use the option -e, then the original version of the file will 
still be available
 with suffix .ly~, so there's no need to make a copy under another 
name, if you
 just are afraid to loose information.
- If you, on the other hand, want to have .ly files both for the old and 
the new
 version, then you shouldn't use the -e option, but rather
convert-ly oldfile.ly > newfile.ly
 The ">" means "redirect the output to the file ..." and works the same in
 both Linux and Windows (and probably MacOS, since it's based on UNIX).

For the rest of the description on how to start a command prompt and 
change directory,
this information is equally relevant to midi2ly and all the other 
utility programs
included in the distribution, and would therefore be more suited in a 
separate
section "Running commands from the Windows Command Prompt" (or whatever)
that can be cited in the description of the different utilities. Maybe 
the same kind of
information is relevant also for MacOS users? The current "MacOS X on the
command-line" just describes how to set the path and requires the user 
to already
know how to access the command line and change directory.

    /Mats