Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

[David Kastrup]

Larry Kent <address@hidden> writes:

> This issue comes up from time to time for me, and I hope someone can help.
> Occasionally I need to make minor revisions to a score that was engraved
> with LilyPond version 1.4.12.  That version was long before I started
> trying to use the program, so I don't have that version.

Downloads on the website start with
<URL:http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/lilypond-ancient-1.4.15-1.linux-x86.sh>
for Linux.  No idea whether the runtime will work fine on current
systems.

> Anyway, every time I try to revise the source so that it will compile
> in v. 2.16 or 2.18, I screw up something and it makes a mess and
> pretty soon I'm frustrated and move on to something more productive.

You know about convert-ly for converting to newer versions?  1.4 is
probably too old to be reliably converted, but with some luck at least
some of the conversion work will be done for you.

-- 
David Kastrup