Re: Vocal music sheet - hyphens wrongly engraved

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> Jun,
>
> There are a number of "challenges" with this song file.  It's these
>that produce the errors rather than versions of lilypond.  I thought it
>might be better to run through the errors and their fixes line by line
>- hopefully this will help you into the future.  I'll put my commented
>fixes in a different colour, and apologise to those who don't get on
>with HTML or top posting....  Here's the logfile output:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.16.0
> Processing `D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly'
> Parsing...
> D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly:12:168: error: GUILE 
> signaled an error for the expression beginning here
>   title = \markup \fill-line { \line {} \line { Source: Pentecostal Hymns 
> Nos. 1 and 2 Combined, by Henry Date (Chicago, Illinois: The Hope Publishing 
> Company, 1894), #
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
>              427.} }
>
> D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly:12:167: error: not a markup
>   title = \markup \fill-line { \line {} \line { Source: Pentecostal Hymns 
> Nos. 1 and 2 Combined, by Henry Date (Chicago, Illinois: The Hope Publishing 
> Company, 1894), 
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
>            # 427.} }
>
> This is a problem with the information in your file - the comments
> include a #, which is a reserved character for lilypond.  I could add
> a feature to my converter to allow this, but the simplest fix is to
> change # to No.

Why aren't you enclosing strings in "..." ?  That seems to make much
more sense.

-- 
David Kastrup