Re: [frogs] New Frog task

["Carl D. Sorensen" <c_sorensen@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ian.

Carl


On 1/12/09 5:42 PM, "Ian Hulin" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>>  
>> Dear Frogs,
>> 
>> As you can see from the email below, oldaddlyrics should be removed from
>> lilypond.
>> 
>> This will require the following:
>> 
>> 1.  Remove the definition from ly/music-fuctions-init.ly
>> 2.  Add a rule to convertrules.py (you can find out where it's located by
>> yourself; it's good training), if it's not there already.
>> 3.  In order to be sure you add the rule to convertrules.py for the right
>> version, you should probably search the git history to find out when it was
>> removed (or replaced).
>> 
>> Anybody want to take on this task?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
>>   
> OK, Since I was the one who brought up \oldaddlyrics in the first place.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ian
>>  
>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> Hi Carl,
>>>> \oladdlyrics is on my to-do list of undocumented functions.
>>>> \oldaddlyrics is the deprecated version of \addlyrics.
>>>> Should I remove the oldaddlyrics entry and add in one for \addlyrics so
>>>> this one is included in the docs, or just put a note that oldaddlyrics
>>>> is retained only in order to retain backwards compatibility?
>>>>       
>>>>  
>>>  
>>> I'd recommend that you keep the oldaddlyrics entry, and make sure it
>>> mentions that it is deprecated.
>>>     
>>>  
>>  
>> 
>> I hope you have realized that \oldaddlyrics is not only deprecated
>> but actually doesn't work at all! There' no need to keep it, but we
>> should preferably introduce a convert-ly rule that prints out a warning
>> to the user that he manually has to replace \oldaddlyrics
>> with \lyricsto or the new \addlyrics (which has another syntax).
>> This was discussed on the mailing list some time ago.
>> 
>> I realize that this breaks Graham's rule that we shouldn't add any
>> convert-ly rules in 2.12, but the rule should actually be specified
>> for some old LilyPond version (probably 2.8.x or 2.10.x) where
>> \oldaddlyrics actually stopped working. Perhaps this has already been
>> done.
>> 
>>    /Mats
>> 
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