Re: On creating "title pages" and the like (with snippet 368)

[Graham King]

Here's some progress in getting snippet 368 to run with lilypond 2.16.2.  I suspect that guile has, at some point, become unicode-aware, so I

• downloaded the snippet  from http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/tmp/book-titling.ily not from http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368 (where the character encoding is messed up) - see http://www.archivum.info/address@hidden/2008-01/00557/Re-Lilypond-book-and-LaTeX-a-few-issues.html
• saved the embedded, commented, example to a separate file;
• added a statement: \version "2.11.0" to both files;
• ran convert-ly on both files;
• changed two lines in book-titling.ily:

>     %#(let ((lower-case-accented-string "éèêëáà âäíìîïóòôöúùûüçœæ")
>     %       (upper-case-accented-string "ÉÈÊËÃ<U+0081>ÀÂÄÃ<U+008D>ÌÎÃ<U+008F>ÓÒÔÖÚÙÛÜÇŒÆ"))
>     #(let ((lower-case-accented-string "é")
>            (upper-case-accented-string "É"))

• changed the encoding of both files to unicode in my editor (eclipse);
• in the example file, changed the two special characters (lines 13 and 31) to the equivalent unicode characters;
• compiled book-titling.ily and the example.

The way ahead is probably to avoid the entire section of book-titling.ily that deals with "accented characters" by using unicode in the source file for your score.

If this works, then clearly I've left book-titling.ily containing a lot of now-redundant code.

hope it helps
-- Graham


On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 12:44 +0000, Graham King wrote:
>     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):
<snip>
>     
>     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 ?
> >
> >     
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