Re: How to read a error message?

[Urs Liska]

Am 14.03.2017 um 09:00 schrieb David Kastrup:
> and then the offending line, split into two just at the offending
> location.  In your case, the first occurences of h are flagged since h
> is not part of the default note language.

To add something more general to that: The "error: unrecognized string"
indicates that LilyPond is given something to parse (here: "h") which it
doesn't understand ("recognize") at this place. It can be a note name in
the wrong language but it could also be a misspelled command (e.g.
\brake instead of \break) or a variable you have declared in another
file which you forgot to include.

So essentially this error tells you "There is *something* wrong with
your input but I can't tell you what exactly". And LilyPond can't tell
you "this is not a note name" here because there are plenty of other
valid things that could go there, articulations, dynamics, ties,
arbitrary commands or Scheme expressions ...

HTH
Urs

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