Re: convert-ly

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always tell what LilyPond version you use.

Using 2.8.5, I tried to convert the file and noticed that it
was the conversion between versions 2.5.18 and 2.5.21 that required 
manual intervention. Therefore, you can do convert-ly --to=2.5.18 ...
Manually edit the file and add
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  2 4)
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  3 4)
below #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  1 4)
and change the version number in the file to 2.5.21.
Then, just run convert-ly again and it will do the conversion
from 2.5.21 to the current version without any further problems.
Note that I haven't tried to actually process the file, so there
may be some further problems that convert-ly didn't handle at all.

  /Mats

Quoting Stewart Holmes <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use convert-ly to update 
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BeethovenLv/O27/moonlight1/moonlight1.ly. 
> However, when I do, I'm given some nasty errors, which don't really 
> mean a lot to me. My question... is it worth the time trying to 
> tinker with the source file to get convert-ly to accept it, or should 
> I just convert it manually?
>
> Thanks,
> Stewart