Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

[Trevor Daniels]

Nick Payne wrote Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:55 PM


> Is there anywhere in the documentation that states where 
> whitespace *is*
> required? I was getting a warning in my console output: "warning: 
> More
> alternatives than repeats.  Junking excess alternatives", and I 
> couldn't see
> what could be causing this. I eventually found that that warning 
> was caused
> by having no space between ] and } in one of the alternatives. 
> i.e.
>
> {g'8[ g g g g g]}
>
> instead of
>
> {g'8[ g g g g g] }
>
> As making that change got rid of the warning.
>
> The only mention I could find regarding whitespace was s.2.1.3 of 
> the
> learning manual, which doesn't really cover this case.

There is advice in Learning Manual 2.1.3 to surround
braces with whitespace:

"The braces should be surrounded by a space unless
they are at the beginning or end of a line to avoid
ambiguities."

However, I've just added a further paragraph to that
section to emphasise that whitespace can always be
added, but not eliminated, especially round braces.

> Nick

Trevor