Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

[Graham King]

I ran convert-ly -ed as suggested, and then ran lilypond on the resulting file to have a look at the embedded example.  
Here's the resulting error message (lilypond 2.16.2 on OSX 10.6.8):

>     Processing `book-titling.ily'
>     Parsing.../Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/regex.scm:180:45: In procedure make-regexp in _expression_ (make-regexp regexp):
>     /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/regex.scm:180:45: illegal byte sequence
>     LilyPond terminated in 0.673 seconds.
>     
Curiously, before spotting the suggested "-ed" options to convert-ly, I had tried adding a \version "2.14.0" statement to the top of the file and running convert-ly without options.  Eeek!

>     $ /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly book-titling-a.ily > book-titling-a.convert-ly.ily
>     convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.16.2
>     
>     convert-ly: Processing `book-titling-a.ily'... 
>     Applying conversion: 2.15.7, 2.15.9, 2.15.10, 2.15.16, 2.15.17, 2.15.18, 2.15.19, 2.15.20, 2.15.25, 2.15.32, 2.15.39, 2.15.40, 2.15.42, 2.15.43, 2.16.0
>     
>     
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly", line 374, in <module>
>         main ()
>       File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly", line 362, in main
>         do_one_file (f)
>       File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly", line 316, in do_one_file
>         outfile.write (result)
>       File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 351, in write
>         data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
>     UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 1331: invalid start byte

and, in a spirit of inquiry, thought I might have a look inside convert-ly:

>     $ file /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly
>     /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly: ERROR: line 163: regex error 17, (illegal byte sequence)
>     
I suspect that there might be a problem with convert-ly on OSX.

kind regards
-- Graham King

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:54 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Kevin Tough <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > My lilypond install of 2.16.2 cannot parse the input file. It hangs at 
> > fatal error:  failed files: "SnippetForBookWithTitleAndTOC"
> > (4 of 29): error: unknown escaped string: *\markuplines'
>
> Did you run
>
>     convert-ly -ed
>
> on the file in order to upgrade the syntax to version 2.16.2 ?