Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> writes: > Le 20/07/2022 à 05:57, David F. a écrit : >> In 2.23, the rest markup command changed from taking a string to taking a >> duration. >> >> \version "2.22" >> \markup \rest #"4.." >> >> \version "2.23" >> \markup \rest { 4.. } >> >> It would be nice if this change were backward compatible, at least >> for a version or two. > > > LilyPond's general policy is that backwards-incompatible syntax > changes are OK as long as a convert-ly rule is provided to update > input files automatically. > > Well, in this case there is no convert-ly rule ... I'll fix that soon.
I was "what?!?!?" about this but then the convert-ly rule I did was for \note in a quite earlier version. It's probably reasonably easy to just copy and adapt that rule. -- David Kastrup
