Re: Treating a tie as a slur

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

2014-09-08 12:51 GMT+00:00 Johan Vromans <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> Often when processing music imported from Sibelius I have the problem
> that Sibelius doesn't seem to care whether a tie connects notes of the
> same pitch. As a consequence, some Sibelius users have become lazy and
> always use a tie even when the pitches differ.
>
> LiliPond emits an error message when it encounters a tie between notes
> of different pitch. This is correct. In fact, I asked for it ;) [1].
>
> However, occasionally it would be handy if I could kindly ask LiliPond
> to treat the ties as slurs if necessary. Yes, I know this is wrong, but
> manually changing hundreds of ties into slurs is not fun.

I think that writing a converter script that postprocesses imported
LilyPond code should not be difficult.  In fact, i believe that it may
be very easy if you used Frescobaldi's code for parsing LilyPond.

best,
Janek