Re: Greetings and a question

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Laura Conrad writes:

> I've hit that one (in 2.0); I was planning to report it after I had
> a chance to check it on a more recent version.

Ok.  Next time, feel free to just report such a thing, as long as you
mention the version.

> The workaround is to change the "< a' c >" that comes in the lilypond
> output to read "<< a' c >>".

I guessed that much, but wanted to test it before making changes.
It's a simple patch, see below, but I haven't been able to test it.

Fixed in CVS.

> My tunes aren't so simple, but I don't use chords very often

That was what I meant of course, no offence intended!

Greetings,
Jan.


Index: abc2ly.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/lilypond/lilypond/scripts/abc2ly.py,v
retrieving revision 1.40
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -p -u -p -u -r1.40 -r1.41
--- abc2ly.py   19 Apr 2004 23:18:39 -0000      1.40
+++ abc2ly.py   1 Jul 2004 21:36:08 -0000       1.41
@@ -1190,18 +1190,18 @@ def try_parse_chord_delims (str, state):
                if state.next_bar:
                        voices_append(state.next_bar)
                        state.next_bar = ''
-               voices_append ('<')
+               voices_append ('<<')
 
        if str[:1] == '+':
                str = str[1:]
                if state.plus_chord:
-                       voices_append ('>')
+                       voices_append ('>>')
                        state.plus_chord = 0
                else:
                        if state.next_bar:
                                voices_append(state.next_bar)
                                state.next_bar = ''
-                       voices_append ('<')
+                       voices_append ('<<')
                        state.plus_chord = 1
 
        ch = ''

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org