Re: can't open .ly file

[Mats Bengtsson]

I hope you updated the file syntax first to correspond to your version 
of LilyPond. The .ly files were written for version 2.2.6
and much has changed since then. After updating the syntax using
convert-ly (I think there is a menu command available for that on 
MacOS), I could compile the file here without any such error.
However, there were quite a number of warnings and the file uses
a number of features that convert-ly unfortunately not can handle
automatically, so you have to edit the file by hand, for example
to get the titling correct.

  /Mats

Quoting Themis Matsoukas <address@hidden>:

> I  downloaded a file from mutopia but when I try t open in lilypond I  get:
>
> An unexpected error has occurred: (UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec  
> can't decode bytes in position 204-206: invalid data)
>
> The file in question is  
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/ChopinFF/O69/w10-h-moll-cfi/w10-h- 
> moll-cfi-lys.zip. This contains two .ly files both of which produce 
> the  same error.
>
> I am running lilypond 2.10.23-1 (vBuild from Tue May  1 11:50:24 2007 
>  on a G4 iMac (10.3.9)
>
> TIA
>
> Themis
>
>
>
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