Re: Problem with init.ly file

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Ben <address@hidden>:

> I've been working on a number of small compositions, and every time I
> try to create a PDF with Lilypond 2.6.5 (Windows), I get a problem
> during "Parsing." The program tells me that there is one of several
> problems with init.ly. They vary from "error: syntax error, unexpected
> SCM_T" to " error: syntax error, unexpected $end". What do these mean,
> and what am I doing wrong?

It often means that you have a syntax error in your own .ly file that
confuses the program so much that it actually thinks the error is
somewhere else.

> Also, how do I create chords, properly? I'm having no end of trouble 
> from this.
> Here's what the program gives me:
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected DIGIT, expecting DRUM_PITCH or
> NOTENAME_PITCH or '>'
> R2.*4 <d
>        8 d,>^\accent r8 <d' d,>^( <a' d,>^\accent) r
>
> Please help me!

If you read more carefully in the manual, you will learn that the 
syntax for chords is <d d,>8
i.e. the duration should be specified for the full chord, not for the 
individual notes.

  /Mats