Re: Old LilyPond versions

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:14:42 -0400
Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:

> The grumpy doc writer has said many times that he knows nothing about
> vocal music.  None of the suggestions in 5.1 is going to change the
> fact that manual conversion is necessary for all vocal music
> transcribed before 2.4.

You're talking about the old LaTeX accents -> utf-8 ?

Manual conversion is necessary with current convert-ly.  I can
think of three ways to automate it.  They're all kind-of hackish,
but they'd work in theory.  It just needs somebody to translate
that theory into practice.

> And in any case, drawing the attention of new members of the list who
> are struggling to convert old projects to LM5.1 is one of the benefits
> of rehashing the old topic.

That's true.

Cheers,
- Graham