Re: Vocal music sheet - hyphens wrongly engraved

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Jun,
>>>
>>> There are a number of "challenges" with this song file.  It's these
>>>that produce the errors rather than versions of lilypond.  I thought it
>>>might be better to run through the errors and their fixes line by line
>>>- hopefully this will help you into the future.  I'll put my commented
>>>fixes in a different colour, and apologise to those who don't get on
>>>with HTML or top posting....  Here's the logfile output:
>>>
>>> GNU LilyPond 2.16.0
>>> Processing `D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly'
>>> Parsing...
>>> D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly:12:168: error:
>>> GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here
>>>   title = \markup \fill-line { \line {} \line { Source: Pentecostal
>>> Hymns Nos. 1 and 2 Combined, by Henry Date (Chicago, Illinois: The
>>> Hope Publishing Company, 1894), #
>>>
>>> 427.} }
>>>
>>> D:/Music/NWC2Ly/Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.ly:12:167: error:
>>> not a markup
>>>   title = \markup \fill-line { \line {} \line { Source: Pentecostal
>>> Hymns Nos. 1 and 2 Combined, by Henry Date (Chicago, Illinois: The
>>> Hope Publishing Company, 1894),
>>>
>>> # 427.} }
>>>
>>> This is a problem with the information in your file - the comments
>>> include a #, which is a reserved character for lilypond.  I could add
>>> a feature to my converter to allow this, but the simplest fix is to
>>> change # to No.
>>
>> Why aren't you enclosing strings in "..." ?  That seems to make much
>> more sense.
>>
>> -- 
>> David Kastrup
>
>
> As a general comment - I've not done much with my converter to use the
> "comments" field of Noteworthy.  So I've not put the strings within
> ".." because I've never really tackled that part of the conversion.
> IIRC there are often problems with simply enclosing everything in ".."
> - word wrap, for example.

You wrote \line anyway, so there will be no word wrap.

-- 
David Kastrup