Re: Solution for: 2.11.38 LSR Adding accidentals to a trillspanner

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:05:31 -0700
Paul Scott <address@hidden> wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > - run the example through convert-ly.  It will probably warn you
> >   about the text spanners.
> >   
> The LSR code didn't have a version that I could see.  I tried
> starting with several 2.11.x versions.  s.11.11 finally gave:

LSR is version 2.10.12.  That info is somewhere on the website.

> > Applying conversion: 2.11.13, Not smart enough to convert edge-text
> > settings for TextSpanner.Use
> >
> >         \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'text =
> > <right-text> \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text =
> > <left-text> 
> That's not enough information for me and the converted code still has 
> the original problem.

Of course the converted code still has the problem!  That's what
"not smart enough to convert" means!

> > - look at the doc section about text spanners.  It tells you the
> >   new syntax.
> >   
> Where?  The internals doc for edge-text is too generic.

Umm, the first example?  It shows you how to use #'bound-details.


> I am somewhat familiar with each of these steps but not enough to
> solve this problem.

You're trying to use a special tweak from an old version in an UNSTABLE
version of lilypond.  Unfortunately you need to get more familiar with
these steps if you want to convert special tweaks.
- Graham