Re: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:13, Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Erik> On 7/11/06, Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:
>     >> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Erik> By the way, there are plans to drop the old-lyric-combine
>     Erik> compatibility altogether, so in order to upgrade to the next
>     Erik> stable version, you'll have to rewrite all your old-style
>     Erik> \addlyrics expressions manually.
>
>     >> I'm not sure how this differs from what I have to do now.  Do
>     >> you mean that in addition to breaking multi-verse upgrading,
>     >> you're also planning to break single-verse upgrading?
>
>     Erik> I think so. The command that used to be \addlyrics, and
>     Erik> which now is known as \oldaddlyrics, will be
>     Erik> removed. \lyricsto (and hte new \addlyrics) will be the only
>     Erik> ways to align lyrics.
>
> I suppose I should be reading the fine manual more, but I've never
> figured out the difference between \oldaddlyrics and \addlyrics.  In
> any case, my manual conversions use \addlyrics.

\addlyrics will still be supported, only \oldaddlyrics will be junked. So 
according to what you say below, abc2ly will still work fine.


> I've never seen why convert-ly wouldn't be able to write that from the
> old output of abc2ly, but instead it writes:

The reason why convert-ly can't handle oldaddlyrics, is that it is based on 
regexps, which makes it very difficult to move stuff far distances (such as 
across a \context Staff ... expression).

-- 
Erik