Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

[Larry Kent]

Thanks, James, David, and Hwaen.  Convert-ly doesn't handle version 1.4 very well, not surprising.  The current project I'm working on is a very short piece, so I may just start over with this one.  Long-term, however, it would be nice to find somewhere that a user can grab an old version, install it in a separate folder and work on an old edition.

Thanks again.
Larry

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:42 PM, James <address@hidden> wrote:

On 17/07/14 16:46, Larry Kent wrote:

This issue comes up from time to time for me, and I hope someone can help.  Occasionally I need to make minor revisions to a score that was engraved with LilyPond version 1.4.12.  That version was long before I started trying to use the program, so I don't have that version.  Anyway, every time I try to revise the source so that it will compile in v. 2.16 or 2.18, I screw up something and it makes a mess and pretty soon I'm frustrated and move on to something more productive.

So my question is:   Is there any way I can get any of the very early versions so that I can make a couple of minor tweaks and compile these scores?  Or is there some other solution that doesn't involve recodiing everything?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Larry Kent
Tampa, FL

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly

I hope this helps.

James