file names nonsense

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I have a large amount of notation in lilypond format. Many of the songs have no name and no text. I also have audio examples and written introductions to each song. I thought that giving each song the first few measures of ly text would be a great way of absolutly tagging each song and

Re: file names nonsense

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron
The problem lilypond won't parse them. Now is the problem the length or the use of periods?? example: b16b8.b4bb16b8.a4ga4.g8aba2e4.ly won't parse but renamed to test.ly it does parse. And so does b16b8b4bb16b8a4ga4g8aba2e4.ly so is there a way to use periods in a name?? Thanks Aaron

Re: file names nonsense

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now is the problem the length or the use of periods?? example: b16b8.b4bb16b8.a4ga4.g8aba2e4.ly won't parse but renamed to test.ly it does parse. It works for me. What is the parse error that you get? What version of lilypond do you use? Jan. -- Jan

Re: file names nonsense

2003-12-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:13:37 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem lilypond won't parse them. Now is the problem the length or the use of periods?? What operating system are you using? - Graham ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: file names nonsense

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron
Sorry for no follow up. For some reason there were no apparent parse errors. Just couldn't find dvi etc. I assumed that the files were ok, but when I lifted the notation and dumped it into a template I knew parsed, voila the errors appeared. So for now I retract my question. If this becomes a