On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 09:24:02PM -0700, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > Got it. I had \bar"\" not \bar"|" All fixed now. Strange that would > cause the error. I would have expected something like unknown escape > string or something like that. Now it's all done. lol!
It meant that the quote before the \ didn't get closed until some time later (or never). Paul Scott > > Thanks for the hint. > > Take care. > On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sarah: > > > > When I compiled the file I got the "unexpected string" error message for the > > "unexpected String \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Piano " ." My > > experience is that this occurs when I fail to have a closing brace, "}," > > correctly paired with an opening brace , "{". This may or may not be the > > case here. It is a place to start checking. > > > > Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Sarah k Alawami > > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:10 PM > > To: lilly pond discuss discuss > > Subject: final touches, but getting errors. > > > > Ok. I don't recall changing anything in this templet. All was working fine > > until I added some accent marks and such. those compiled ok but now when I > > added the \bar"|" I got the compilation errors. I know I'm close. did I miss > > an equals sign some wares? > > here is the ly file. and I'm aware I missed a crescendo some ware as well. > > I'll fix that. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
