>
> Viktor, I suspect what is happening is that you first upgraded
> an old file to 2.20 without convert-ly, which didn't change
> this syntax, then upgraded from 2.20 to 2.22, which didn't
> change it either because the conversion rule is done when crossing
> the version in which the change was done, namely version 2.17.6.
>
Exactly!
I didn't know about convert-ly as a way of converting multiple files
through the terminal.
I used it only through Frescobaldy ( and I referred to it as update.ly in
my original post:-)
> That said, while true that this syntax is deprecated, it still
> works and replacing NoteName #'stencil with NoteName.stencil
> does not make a difference in the output.
>
As I read David's email, I quickly learned how to use convert-ly on a
terminal and converted all my files, but the result was the same - no
letters!
>
> The problem appears to be that the NoteName text in 2.22 is
> not a simple string but a combination of \concat, \line and
> \simple that ends up printing the same thing. One can fix
> the snippet by first extracting the string from that markup
> before the alist lookup, using markup->string:
>
Now, "markup->string" is really beyond my comprehension. I am a music class
teacher and learn as much as 'need-to-know' in order to preserve sanity:-)
>
> \version "2.22.0"
> music =\relative c' { c4 d e f}
> chimenames =
> #`(
> ("c" . "C")
> ("d" . "D")
> ("e" . "E")
> ("f" . "F")
> )
>
> ChimeNoteNames =
> #(lambda (grob)
> (let* ((default-name (markup->string (ly:grob-property grob 'text)))
> (new-name (assoc-get default-name chimenames)))
> (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text new-name)
> (ly:text-interface::print grob)))
>
> \new StaffGroup
> <<
> \new Staff \music
> \new NoteNames \with {
> \override NoteName.stencil = #ChimeNoteNames
> }
> \music
> >>
>
Thank you! This works.
>
>
> Note that if the goal is to uppercase the note names, there
> is also a simpler solution that works in recent versions,
> thanks to the new string transformers facility:
>
> \version "2.23.80"
>
> #(define (ChimeNoteNames grob)
> (grob-interpret-markup
> grob
> #{
> \markup \with-string-transformer
> #(lambda (layout props str)
> (string-upcase str))
> #(ly:grob-property grob 'text)
> #}))
>
> music =\relative c' { <c d>4 dis e f}
>
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff \music
> \new NoteNames \with {
> \override NoteName.stencil = #ChimeNoteNames
> }
> \music
> >>
>
>
> Oh, this doesn't work on 2.22 and I am too scared to upgrade now before
report writing kicks in. But I will keep it and try it out as soon as I
upgrade.
Thank you David for waking me up to convert-ly (terminal) and Jean for the
"markup->string" solution.
Viktor
