From: Graham Percival <graham@percival-music.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:13:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added convert-ly bugs list from CVS.
X-Git-Tag: release/2.5.14~366
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cf6e576b9bc0d4df1867809165d904a9f6bbc39;p=lilypond.git

Added convert-ly bugs list from CVS.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e427c8b77a..53761d8257 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 	* Documentation/user/changing-defaults.itely: fix index for set.
 
+	* Documentation/user/converters.itely: add convert-ly bugs list
+	from CVS.
+
 2004-12-21  Jan Nieuwenhuizen  <janneke@gnu.org>
 
 	* python/lilylib.py (setup_environment): Set GS_FONTPATH, GS_LIB
diff --git a/Documentation/user/converters.itely b/Documentation/user/converters.itely
index ce28b574ed..166ef75850 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/converters.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/converters.itely
@@ -91,6 +91,36 @@ usually lower than the version of @command{convert-ly} itself.
 Not all language changes are handled.  Only one output option can be
 specified.
 
+@ignore
+Copy and paste from CVS, last updated
+Dec 22, 2004
+
+http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/convert-ly.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
+@end ignore
+@verbatim
+
+There are a few things that the convert-ly cannot handle. Here's a list of limitations
+that the community has complained about.
+
+This bug report structure has been chosen because convert-ly has a structure that doesn't
+allow to smoothly implement all needed changes. Thus this is just a wishlist, placed
+here for reference.
+
+1.6->2.0:
+ Doesn't always convert figured bass correctly, specifically things like {< >}. Mats' comment on working around this:
+   To be able to run convert-ly
+   on it, I first replaced all occurencies of '{<' to some dummy like '{#'
+   and similarly I replaced '>}' with '&}'. After the conversion, I could
+   then change back from '{ #' to '{ <' and from '& }' to '> }'.
+ Doesn't convert all text markup correctly. Only very simple cases are fixed.
+2.0->2.2:
+ Doesn't handle \partcombine
+ Doesn't do \addlyrics => \lyricsto, this breaks some scores with multiple stanzas.
+2.2->2.4:
+ \turnOff (used in \set Staff.VoltaBracket = \turnOff) is not properly converted.
+@end verbatim
+
+
 @node Invoking midi2ly
 @section Invoking @command{midi2ly}