Re: Beginner's questions

[David Kastrup]

Pierre RUEL <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with
> other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed
> music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced
> .txt code and music.
> I have a huge .ly file of more than 400 A4 pages and the .log window
> lists a relatively small number of various errors but indefinitely
> repeated. And I have some difficulty to understand the .log
> observations. For instance, the .log stops at (sorry I'm of french
> mother thongue and use "italiano.ly"):
> <do''2 reb''2>
> and the analysis of the soft says:
> "syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting > or DRUM_PITCH or
> MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH"
> <
>  do''2 reb''2>
> Could anybody explain  what is that "guilty" STRING ?

Apparently do.  Seems like you don't use italiano.ly after all.

> I don't understand either why a > is expected here.
>
> Additional precision: I've a "relative c''" at the beginning

Which would not work if you _did_ use italiano.ly.

-- 
David Kastrup