Re: another convert-ly problem

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 01.47, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > address@hidden writes:
> > > It might be too much to demand that convert-ly should upgrade
> > > #'(italic "Simile")
> > > to
> > > \markup {\italic { "Simile" }}
> > > , but the movement of a parenthesis movement is IMHO a clear bug, as
> > > opposed to a limitation.
> >
> > Unfortunately,  I don't  see good way to fix this.
> 
> Really? Doing _nothing_ would actually be satisfactory.. The problem is that 
> one parenthesis is moving:
> 1.8: a4_#'(italic "Simile") c
> 1.9: a4_#'(italic "Simile" c)
> so if you just would detect the #', you could assume that it would be 
> followed 
> by a nonempty balanced parenthesis expression, which you just could output as 
> it is (hence the c wouldn't see that there's a parenthesis before it, which I 
> assume is the problem). Wouldn't that work?

Yes it would, but how would you parse a balanced parenthesis
expression using regular expressions?

> 

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