Re: How to Debug Parse Errors

[Richard Grubb]

I actually used the "Save" or "Save As" menu in IE5 to save the example 
files.

Running "less standchen.ly" shows the only "non-printable" characters 
are a bunch of ^M (Which are end-of-line characters; Unix or Mac, I 
would have to look up which it is) and one <8A> in the Mutopia header 
for the title (an "a" with some accent mark in Standchen).

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 04:07 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 December 2002 21.58, Richard Grubb wrote:
> > I am new to Lilypond. I have 1.6.0 running on MacOSX 10.1.5. I can
> > create .ly files from descriptions in the tutorial and run them through
> > ly2dvi, but have not been able to run the first two examples I saved
> > from the lilypond.org website. When I run ly2dvi -P standchen.ly, I get
> > the following output:
> >
> > error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting STRING or '}'
>
> That one occurs to me too, sometimes. The problem is probably that you 
> copied
> the file through the clipboard or something, and some of the spaces are
> actually some other kind of character which Lilypond treats as an 
> illegal
> character (you can see that the characters are distinct from spaces if 
> you
> run "less file.ly").
>
> A solution is to replace all those spaces with normal spaces.
>
> Erik