Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> writes: > Hi, > > is there a way to check the validity of a .ly file? > > I am thinking of a syntax check – so basically if the parser/lexer can > read it. It should (a) be quick and (b) not produce any output (could be > deleted as a last resort). > > Is there something in python-ly that does that? It looks like the > Frescobaldi auto-engraving only runs if the input is valid. > > I guess to check everything, I would have to run lilypond on it and see > if there are any warnings or errors. But I am willing to have less > coverage if I can get the result faster. > > Thanks in advance for any hints.
You could just turn all of LilyPond's processing hooks for various syntactic elements into do-nothings in your own init file and then read the various inputs. That should be rather fast. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
