Hello,
I hope someone will be able to put me straight as I seem to be missing
something absolutely fundamental and probably just need someone to put me
straight.
For anyone who has already helped me, I have switched to my Windows 11 machine
and am running "2.24.3" and using Frescobaldi 3.3.0
I am creating txt files to use as .ly files and then wrapping them in Lilypond
code. I know this means my code does not conform to the convention but my
pre-processing benefits from everything being on one line and my reading of the
manual and previous results lead me to believe this should not cause a problems.
As a beginner, I tend to make something work and then reuse it but I don't seem
able to get things to behave consistently, so I think I have overlooked
something basic and no amount of cutting and pasting and research is fixing it.
Here is an example:
\version "2.24.3"
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_01" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4
d''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a'8 a'8 a'8 d''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4
f''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 e''4 d''8 c''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_01" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''8 c'''8
c'''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 a''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 g''4 e''8 c''8 c''8 c''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_05" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_06" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_07" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 c'''8 b''8 c'''8 d'''8
c'''8 b''8 a''8 }
and another six lines
Following the tutorial, I've left everything out but the basics and I get
exactly what I expected on 2.24.3 (and also on Windows 8.1 with 2.22.2), namely
11 single bar expressions, each on their own line, with time signature and a
marker with no error messages and th elovely green message "Completed
successfully"
But I want more ......
So I copy from 3.6.3 and wrap \score \layout and \midi round my opus .....
\score {
… music …
\layout { }
\midi { }
}
\version "2.24.3"
\score {
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_01" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4
d''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a'8 a'8 a'8 d''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4
f''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 e''4 d''8 c''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_01" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''8 c'''8
c'''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 a''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 g''4 e''8 c''8 c''8 c''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_05" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_06" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_07" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 c'''8 b''8 c'''8 d'''8
c'''8 b''8 a''8 }
\layout { }
\midi { }
}
Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.22.2 [Untitled]... [and also when using the
same file on 2.24.3]
Processing
`c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly'
Parsing...
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:10:1<0>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a'8 a'8 a'8 d''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:11:1<1>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4
f''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:12:1<2>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1a-_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 e''4 d''8 c''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:13:1<3>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_01" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''8 c'''8
c'''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:14:1<4>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 d''8 e''8 f''8
g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:15:1<5>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_03" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 a''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:16:1<6>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_04" \key c\major \time 9/8 g''4 e''8 c''8 c''8 c''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:17:1<7>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_05" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''4 b''8 c'''4 g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:18:1<8>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_06" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''4 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 d'''8 e''8
f''8 g''8 }
c:/users/acer/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-cahb3r/tmpdto4tu/document.ly:19:1<9>:
error: Spurious expression in \score
{ \mark "ON079-1-b_07" \key c\major \time 9/8 a''8 b''8 c'''8 b''8 c'''8 d'''8
c'''8 b''8 a''8 }
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Interpreting music...
MIDI output to `document.mid'...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Converting to `document.pdf'...
fatal error: failed files:
"c:\\users\\acer\\appdata\\local\\temp\\frescobaldi-cahb3r\\tmpdto4tu\\document.ly"
Exited with return code 1.
Now I get one solitary line on my page and no green message.
I tried removing all the curly braces from around my lines, but that doesn't
help .....
Please, someone help me while I still have a little hair left to pull out on a
later occasion :-}
