Re: How to use swing.scm in a .ly file

[Guy Stalnaker]

David,

Much thanks. Adding 'swing.scm' to the init variable was easy to do 
once, of course, you told me what to do.

Regards,

Guy

On 05/17/2013 08:57 AM, David Nalesnik wrote:
> Hi Guy,
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Thinking this should be simple to do I've now spent over an hour trying to
> > figure out how to use the functions in swing.scm (
> > https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/attachmentText?id=687&aid=6870029000&name=swing.scm&token=r8ZwHdiYCou-OG0e72qA0tUNAv0%3A1351867728273).
> > I have copied the .scm file to the \scm directory where lilypond is
> > installed. I then tried to use one of the functions in swing.scm yet
> > lilypond says the function name is an unknown string.
>
> The file needs to be loaded, so I believe you should add its name to the
> variable `init-scheme-files-body' in the file `scm\lily.scm'
>
>
> > <quote>
> >
> > Parsing...
> >
> > /Users/gstalnaker/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/JustUs/Goodnight, Sweetheart,
> > Goodnight.ly:134:2 <http://0>: error: unknown escaped string:
> > `\tripletFeel'
> >
> >   \tripletFeel 8 {
> > /Users/gstalnaker/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/JustUs/Goodnight, Sweetheart,
> > Goodnight.ly:134:2 <http://1>: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
> > </quote>
> >
> >   I tried to \include swing.scm but lilypond literally included the scheme
> > contents and all of it was error.
>
> Why not add # before the various functions and save it as an .ly file?
>   Then \include will work, and you won't have to make the changes above
> every time you upgrade.
>
> HTH,
> David

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