-- Knute Snortum
On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 7:42 AM David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > > > This morning I have found that charts I could render yesterday without > problems now fail. Nothing has changed in the files or my Lilypond > installation since I last rendered this chart yesterday afternoon. I have > no idea what has happened and am probably missing something terribly > obvious (since that seems to usually be the case). > > > > FWIW MacOS 26.5.1. > > > > The log: > > > > Starting lilypond 2.26.0 [Wassup MWE.ly]... > > Processing `/Users/tim/Music/Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Rock > Tunes/Just The Two Of US/Wassup MWE.ly' > > Parsing... > > /Users/tim/Music/Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Rock Tunes/Just The Two Of > US/Wassup MWE.ly:31:1 <0>: error: markup outside of text script or > \lyricmode > > That happens when you are inside of some pair of braces rather than at > top level. > > You probably added some spurious brace. The input file you quote does > not quite correspond with the line numbers of this error message, so you > probably are not compiling what you think you are compiling. > You have typographical quotes in your input file: %%% Start melody = \relative c' { \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 \clef treble \key f \minor \override Staff.KeySignature.break-visibility = #all-invisible \override Staff.Clef.break-visibility = #all-invisible % 1 \bar ".|" % This had a typographical quote on the end c'1 % This had a typographical single quote \bar "|." } %%% End
