Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/10/18 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>> That's nice!  Could you make it work with 2.17.3 (we had to freeze
>> LilyPond version to ensure that no regressions in the scores appear,
>> and so we're using 2.17.3 for almost all scores)?
>
> No.  It's not just a matter of replacing "(" with parenthesisOpenSymbol.
> Previous to 2.17.25, the parser had quite hardwired expectations and
> won't take well at all to seeing an event-function instead of an event
> here.  And looking at the old parser code, it does not even go through
> any hook you could reasonably hijack.  Either you modify the C++ code of
> the parser for your counting or you are out of luck.

Ok, i understand that this is not a simple fix (contrary to what i expected).
BTW, this is a good opportunity to say: thank you again for making
LilyPond easier to work with!

> But "regressions in the score" should not really be an issue if you are
> just counting slurs once in a while.  It's not like you need perfect
> output from the same run of LilyPond.

you're right, i'll try this way.

best,
Janek