Re: confused about 1.8

2003-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:50:37 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron wrote: > > I have a template which I created in 1.6.0 and I am using 1.8.0. > > I changed the version field in the template to 1.7.28 which is what the > > convert-ly -e does on an already created file. > > The pri

Re: confused about 1.8

2003-09-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What is the problem? If you upgrade your LilyPond installation, you have to learn the syntax of the new version. There are no huge differences but several smaller ones. One good way of learning the differences is to run an old example through convert-ly and see what it changes. /Mats Aaron wrot

Re: confused about 1.8

2003-09-10 Thread Aaron
Hm I cc to the group... > > I don't really understand what you mean, do you have both 1.6 and 1.8 > installed at the same time? Since convert-ly never will be able to > update exactly all incompatibilities between versions, I definitely > recommend to write all new files for the LilyPond version y

Re: confused about 1.8

2003-09-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The principle is very simple: - You specify the version number of the LilyPond version where you know that the file works. - When you have upgraded LilyPond, just run convert-ly -e fily.ly, which will update the file to work with your new LilyPond version (among others, it will update the ver

confused about 1.8

2003-09-10 Thread Aaron
Hi again, I have a template which I created in 1.6.0 and I am using 1.8.0. I changed the version field in the template to 1.7.28 which is what the convert-ly -e does on an already created file. I can't however parse the file and now convert-ly -e doesn't work either. I am confused about what ver