Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

[Graham Percival]

Fairchild wrote:
> Finding a way to execute convert-ly took several hours of stumbling around.
> Haven't succeeded from jEdit.  Expected to find an .exe file.  A way that
> works is to invoke with a DOS shell from the directory that contains
> convert-ly.py and python.exe (and/or python2.4.exe?).  Documented?

Kind-of.  I made a few remarks at the beginning of chapter 15, but they 
should also be at the beginning of chapter 13.

> Some details:
> - Incorrectly changed a ">" to "}" in scheme code
> - The command-line has changed from
>        ("lilypond" "/cygdrive/C/ . . . /file.ly")
>         to
>        ("C:\\lilypond\\usr\\bin\\lilypond-windows.exe" "file.ly")
>        so must be analyzed differently to extract the file name.
>        Difficult to convert, but ought to be flagged or documented.
> - The string 'strftime "%T"' must be changed to 'strftime "%H:%M:%S"'.  The
> shortcut doesn't work in 2.8.5.  LilyBug?

Automatically updating scheme code is difficult, and I don't think it's 
worth adding details of individual cases to the docs.  I've added a 
warning about scheme code in general, though.

> - \line isn't inserted where required.  Documented.  A biggie.

Could you let me know if there's anything that should be added to the 
list in 13.3 Updating with convert-ly ?  (other than scheme code)

Cheers,
- Graham