Re: Question [uncomprehensible error]

[Sven Axelsson]

On 17/10/05, Bernhard Haak <address@hidden> wrote:
> I get the following error message on my very first test lilypond piece:
>
> E:/Programme/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3/ly/init.ly:38:69:
> error: syntax error, unexpected $end (apply ly:make-book
> $defaultpaper $globalheader toplevel-scores)))
>
> Can anybody explain to me what kind of error might be hidden behind?
> I add the error-producing file (sorry for its lenght!),

[Snip lots of Lilypond code]

Unexpected $end means that the parser reached the end of file before
it was finished parsing. This is (usually caused by mismatched curly
braces - in your case probably here:

>    << {c4 d'4 e'2~ } \\ {<e a,>2 s2} >>         % ened
>    < e' b gis e>2 << {e4. g8} \\ {<a c,>4 e4  %%% Looks like we are
>                                               %%% missing "} >>" here
>    << {fis2 g2} \\ {<d' d>1} >>                 % weep
>    <d' g d>4 << {<d' a>2.} \\ {g4 f2} >>        % still shall
>    <d' b>4 <e'~ gis'>4 << {gis2} \\ {e8 d8 e4}>>% weep
>    <a, a cis e a'>1
>    }
> >>
> }

There might be other errors too, but that at least gets the file to be
processed properly.

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Sven Axelsson