4 There are a few things that the convert-ly cannot handle. Here's a list of limitations
5 that the community has complained about.
7 This bug report structure has been chosen because convert-ly has a structure that doesn't
8 allow to smoothly implement all needed changes. Thus this is just a wishlist, placed
12 Doesn't always convert figured bass correctly, specifically things like {< >}. Mats' comment on working around this:
13 To be able to run convert-ly
14 on it, I first replaced all occurencies of '{<' to some dummy like '{#'
15 and similarly I replaced '>}' with '&}'. After the conversion, I could
16 then change back from '{ #' to '{ <' and from '& }' to '> }'.
17 Doesn't convert all text markup correctly. In the old markup syntax,
18 it was possible to group a number of markup commands together within parentheses, e.g.
19 -#'((bold italic) "string")
20 This will incorrectly be converted into
21 -\markup{{\bold italic} "string"}
22 instead of the correct
23 -\markup{\bold \italic "string"}
25 Doesn't handle \partcombine
26 Doesn't do \addlyrics => \lyricsto, this breaks some scores with multiple stanzas.
28 \magnify isn't changed to \fontsize.
29 - \magnify #m => \fontsize #f, where f = 6ln(m)/ln(2)
30 remove-tag isn't changed.
31 - \applymusic #(remove-tag '. . .) => \keepWithTag #'. . .
32 firstpagenumber isn't changed.
33 - firstpagenumber no => printfirstpagenumber = ##f
34 Line breaks in header strings aren't converted.
35 - \\\\ as line break in \header strings => \markup \center-align <
36 "First Line" "Second Line" >
37 Crescendo and decrescendo terminators aren't converted.
41 \turnOff (used in \set Staff.VoltaBracket = \turnOff) is not properly converted.
43 \markup{ \center-align <{ ... }> } should be converted to:
44 \markup{ \center-align {\line { ... }} }
45 but now, \line is missing.
47 Special LaTeX characters such as $~$ in text are not converted to UTF8.