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Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative? |
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Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Father Gordon Gilbert <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in
> absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time.
>
> But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while convert-ly does a
> good job of changing up the basic syntax, I'd like to know if there's
> an easy way of getting rid of all the ' and , so the piece can be done
> in \relative mode. I did "search and replace" on one long piece,
> which resulted in well over an hour's work fixing octaves. Can this
> be automated?
This appears on the feature list of the LilyPond editor Frescobaldi
<URL:http://frescobaldi.org>.
A solution within LilyPond itself would not really help as it would not
preserve the spacing of your input source.
--
David Kastrup