Re: blocking midi output of included files

[James Lowe]

I think you can use explicit ^ and $ so look for ^midid$ (or something 
like that) to explicity select just this string value of "midi".

or you can use ^midi or maybe midi$ on their own - whatever suits.

I'm no expert with sed, but I assume these regular expressions are 
universal.

James



Federico Bruni wrote:
> Il 05/01/2010 11:10, Mark Knoop ha scritto:
> > What about using a Makefile for the project which preprocesses the
> > included files (with sed for example) to comment out the midi block. It
> > could then uncomment the block again after compilation.
>
> This seems the smartest solution.
> Unfortunately, I'm a completely newbie with this kind of stuff.
> Can you give me some hint?
>
> I've decided to put all the \midi block on a single line, to make things 
> easier.
> I should just tell sed to put a % in front of \midi
>
> I'm doing a first try with a single file..
> I've found this command which works almost as expected:
>
> sed s/\midi/%\midi/ $"file.ly"
>
> The problem is that it comments also this line:
> \set Staff.%midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (steel)"
>
> How can avoid that?
>
> Thanks for help!
> Federico