Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Michael Hendry]

> On 23 Apr 2015, at 01:48, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stephen (et al.)
> 
>> anyway I tried a few examples and used %1a %2a etc for measures and used the 
>> bar check (|) as an end 
>> eg.
>> %1a
>> music |
> 

This would be reliant on meticulous use of of the “%NNNa" and “|” pairs to 
delineate the beginning and end of the bar, which might prove to be a tall 
order - perhaps requiring a syntax-testing script to pick up errors before 
running sed?

Offended by the ragged line ends after editing, and feeling the OCD-sufferer’s 
need to have the bar checks neatly lined up at the end of the line, I routinely 
put the bar checks at the _beginnings_ of the bars, thus...

        | a4 b c d
        | a8 b c d e f g a
        | a16 b c d e f g a b c d e f g a b

...instead of...

        a4 b c d |
        a8 b c d e f g a |
        a16 b c d e f g a b c d e f g a b |

...or this...

        a4 b c d                                                |
        a8 b c d e f g a                                |
        a16 b c d e f g a b c d e f g a b       |

…which has the bar checks neatly lined up using tab characters as I type this 
email, but will probably come out with a ragged edge when you receive it!

I’m not sure whether sed can omit text up to but not including the second 
delimiter.

Michael

> I use
> 
>    music   | % 1
> 
> Would sed still work?
> 
>> worked almost every time, only problem I had was if I had to fix the octave
> 
> Yet another reason to deprecate \relative, which I now avoid like the plague. 
> (Unfortunately, I was suckered into using it when I started using Lilypond 
> over a decade ago, so all my legacy code is in \relative mode. Using 
> Frescobaldi, I’m slowly converting all my old code to absolute mode.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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