Re: tempo failure

[Colin Campbell]

On 11/11/2013 08:08 PM, pabuhr wrote:
> This lilypond code snippet:
>
> %% Generated by lilypond-book.py
> %% Options: 
> [exampleindent=10.16\mm,fragment,indent=0\mm,line-width=160\mm,quote,relative=1]
> \include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
>
>
> % ****************************************************************
> % Start cut-&-pastable-section
> % ****************************************************************
>
>
>
> \paper {
>    indent = 0\mm
>    line-width = 160\mm
>    % offset the left padding, also add 1mm as lilypond creates cropped
>    % images with a little space on the right
>    line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000) (* mm 1))
>    line-width = 160\mm - 2.0 * 10.16\mm
>    % offset the left padding, also add 1mm as lilypond creates cropped
>    % images with a little space on the right
>    line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000) (* mm 1))
> }
>
> \layout {
>    
> }
>
>
>
> \relative c'
> {
>
>
> % ****************************************************************
> % ly snippet contents follows:
> % ****************************************************************
> \sourcefileline 1274
> \tempo 4 = 40 ~ 46
> c4. e8 a4 g
> b,2 d4 r
>
>
>
> % ****************************************************************
> % end ly snippet
> % ****************************************************************
> }
>
> generates this error:
>
> Compilation started at Mon Nov 11 22:06:59
> lilypond --ps test1.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.17.28
> Processing `test1.ly'
> Parsing...
> test1.ly:1275:15: error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER
> \tempo 4 = 40
>                ~ 46
> test1.ly:1267:1: error: errors found, ignoring music expression

Change the tilde to an hyphen. It was a fairly recent change, but IDRC 
when it came in.

Cheers,
Colin

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