Re: HELP!!!

[David Kastrup]

Christopher Reed <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey everyone.
> I used tux guitar to create a song for my HSC music piece and i have saves
> it as a lilypond file and every time i attempt to open it with lilypond i
> always get a message similar to:
> *# -*-compilation-*-*
> *Processing `C:/Users/User/Desktop/Funk song 1.ly'*
> *Parsing...*
> *C:/Users/User/Desktop/Funk song 1.ly:50:10: error: GUILE signaled an error
> for the expression beginning here*
> *   \clef #*
> *          (if $inTab "tab" "bass_8")*


> I am attempting to export it as a multi tracked pdf but it will not do
> it for me :( if anyone could help it would be very appreciated or if
> you could do it send me an email and i will attatch the
> email. Thank you very much

It would appear like your software exports a file written for an old
LilyPond version.  The file will likely contain a \version header.  If
you run

convert-ly -ed

on that file, it should get converted to match the current LilyPond
syntax.

-- 
David Kastrup