Re: notation reference lyrics example issue?

[Graham Percival]

Read the beginning of the Learning Manual again; you want a
section called something like "How to read the manuals".  It
discusses this specific issue.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 03:25:32PM +0000, Philip Potter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There seems to be a problem with the example in the notation reference, 
> section
> 2.1.2 [1]:
> 
> \time 3/4
> \relative c' { c2 e4 g2 e4 }
> \addlyrics { gran- de_a- mi- go }
> \addlyrics { pu- "ro y ho-" nes- to }
> \addlyrics { pu- ro~y~ho- nes- to }
> 
> If I try to compile this under 2.12.2 as a complete file I get
> lyrics.ly:1:0: error: syntax error, unexpected \time
> 
> If I move the \time directive to within the \relative block, it compiles ok. 
> Is
> this an error with the documents or is there some context in which this 
> example
> might make sense? I notice that some later examples in the same section put
> \time within \relative, but not all - particularly this one:
> 
> \time 3/4
> \relative c' { c2 e4 g2. }
> \addlyrics { play the game }
> 
> and this one:
> 
> \time 3/4
> \relative c' { c2 e4 g2. }
> \addlyrics { play the game }
> \addlyrics { speel het spel }
> \addlyrics { joue le jeu }
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Entering-lyrics#index-lyrics
> 
> 
> 
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