Re: Automatic Lyric Extenders

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-12-20 02:44, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> On 2016-12-19 6:27 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > I actually meant using an include file like the attached and not
> > having to add the music function locally at all.

Beautiful - didn't know that this was possible at all.

> > #(set! toplevel-music-functions
> >        (cons (lambda (music parser) (autoextenders music))
> >          toplevel-music-functions))
>
> When I add this to the bottom of autoextenders.ily I get the following
> error: [...]
> Based on memories of reading this list, and the hint about number of
> arguments, I realized that the problem was because I'm using 2.19.53 and
> the parser argument is no longer required.  Deleting that got things
> working.  It should be noted that this was not something that convert-ly
> run on autoextenders.ily caught; I had to do this manually.

I'm not surprised; I don't think that convert-ly touches Scheme code 
like that. Simplified version of the above:

#(set! toplevel-music-functions
       (cons autoextenders toplevel-music-functions))

> I thought of using sed too, but thanks to Simon don't have to anymore.
> What I was more concerned about, however, was the time needed to review
> the results of the application to see if anything broke as a result.

I see.

> After a quick review of the half-dozen or so examples I have entered for
> this project so far, everything seem fine.

Great. Just out of curiosity (and because we need to pick a default of 
the equivalent variable for the release version at some point): which 
value for minimum-length did you prefer?


Cheers,
Alexander