Re: ly2dvi problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

> OK, I manually cleaned out all traces of the previous installation and
> re-installed lilypond 1.3.110.  I didn't get the previous error, but I did
> get this:
> 
> % ly2dvi menuet.ly 
> ly2dvi (GNU LilyPond) 1.3.110
> executing: lilypond  menuet.ly 2>&1
> GNU LilyPond 1.3.110.
> Now processing: `menuet.ly'
> Parsing...
> menuet.ly:7:12: error: parse error, expecting `SCM_IDENTIFIER':
>             \key g;
>                    
> ly2dvi: LilyPond failed: lilypond  menuet.ly 2>&1
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes, your input file is written for an older version of
Lilypond, the syntax has changed. It's a good practice
to include a 
\version "1.3.xx" 
declaration in the Lilypond files, where xx is set to the
corresponding Lilypond version. If you have that, you can
use the program convert-ly to automatically upgrade your
input files.

For \key signature declarations, in particular, you should
now say 
\key g \major;
to get the major key.

     /Mats