Re: 2 conversion problems 2.4.6->2.6.3

[Graham Percival]

On 3-Nov-05, at 9:08 AM, Thomas Ruedas wrote:

> understand at all what is meant by it - I can only say that I don't
> see where I depart from the manual with respect to the beams. This is
> the error message:
> "Applying conversion: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.12, 2.5.13,
> 2.5.17, 2.5.18, 2.5.21,
> Not smart enough to convert auto beam settings
> Auto beam settings must now specify each interesting moment in a
> measure explicitely; 1/4 is no longer multiplied to cover moments 1/2
> and 3/4 too.
> Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually.
> error while converting
> Aborting"

This message refers to automatic beaming; it might be generated 
unnecessarily.  Try commenting out any automatic beaming setup, run 
convert-ly, then uncomment the automatic beaming.  If it still works, 
great; if not, see the 2.6/2.7 manual for the new format.

> As I am at typography: previously I entered an en-dash in a title in
> the TeX way as --, and it produced the expected result. This doesn't
> work anymore, so how can I enter the en-dash now?

Insert the symbol directly into the lilypond file, just like accents 
and non-latin characters.  See the docs for utf-8.

Cheers,
- Graham