Re: confused about 1.8

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:50:37 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Aaron wrote:
> > I have a template which I created in 1.6.0 and I am using 1.8.0.
> > I changed the version field in the template to 1.7.28 which is what the
> > convert-ly -e does on an already created file.
>
> The principle is very simple:
> - You specify the version number of the LilyPond version where you
>    know that the file works.
> - When you have upgraded LilyPond, just run convert-ly -e fily.ly,
>    which will update the file to work with your new LilyPond version
>    (among others, it will update the version number).

Just to avoid all confusion, you (Aaron) shouldn't have changed your \version
number manually.  If you ran convert-ly -e template.ly, it should have
produced a template that works with 1.8.x.

After making a backup copy, try changing the \version back to 1.6.0, then
run convert-ly on it.  If that new version works, let that be the template
for all your future pieces.

Cheers,
- Graham