Re: How to read a error message?

[Urs Liska]

Am 14.03.2017 um 11:02 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Am 14.03.2017 um 10:43 schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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 ...
>>> None of which have the form of a string.  I do think that the error
>>> message is too circumlocutory.
>>>
>> Maybe something like Python3:
>>
>>>>> prnit("Something")
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> NameError: name 'prnit' is not defined
>>
>> We could have something like:
>>
>> error: unknown item 'h'
>>
>> in the OP's example?
> Just running "make test" on a proposal of mine: discussion will then be
> best done on the Rietveld issue.
>

OK

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