Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

[David Kastrup]

PMA <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Father Gordon Gilbert<address@hidden>  writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in
>>> absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time.
>>>
>>> But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while convert-ly does a
>>> good job of changing up the basic syntax, I'd like to know if there's
>>> an easy way of getting rid of all the ' and , so the piece can be done
>>> in \relative mode.  I did "search and replace" on one long piece,
>>> which resulted in well over an hour's work fixing octaves.  Can this
>>> be automated?
>>
>> This appears on the feature list of the LilyPond editor Frescobaldi
>> <URL:http://frescobaldi.org>.
>>
>> A solution within LilyPond itself would not really help as it would not
>> preserve the spacing of your input source.
>>
>
> In Linux at least, you could make the changes *and* preserve
> your layout, by calling 'sed' against the .ly file to replace each
> " ' " and " , " with a space.  something like
>
>                  cat <file>.ly | sed "s/[',]/ /g" > FOO
>
> (That's a guess.  Do check out FOO before copying it back in.)

I am afraid that converting to relative mode is more complex than that.

-- 
David Kastrup