Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> writes: > Am 14.03.2017 um 09:00 schrieb David Kastrup: >> and then the offending line, split into two just at the offending >> location. In your case, the first occurences of h are flagged since h >> is not part of the default note language. > > To add something more general to that: The "error: unrecognized string" > indicates that LilyPond is given something to parse (here: "h") which it > doesn't understand ("recognize") at this place. It can be a note name in > the wrong language but it could also be a misspelled command (e.g. > \brake instead of \break) or a variable you have declared in another > file which you forgot to include. > > So essentially this error tells you "There is *something* wrong with > your input but I can't tell you what exactly". And LilyPond can't tell > you "this is not a note name" here because there are plenty of other > valid things that could go there, articulations, dynamics, ties, > arbitrary commands or Scheme expressions ...
None of which have the form of a string. I do think that the error message is too circumlocutory. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user