Re: [Denemo-devel] Paste Lilypond notes

[Andreas Schneider]

On 3/14/19 9:32 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 23:29 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>> On 3/13/19 9:36 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 21:30 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>>> On 3/12/19 10:00 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 20:54 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Edit > Paste Lilypond notes does not work for me. After
>>>>>> answering
>>>>>> yes
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> the question "Paste from Selection",
>>>>>
>>>>> What is in the Denemo Display when you get this dialog? It
>>>>> should
>>>>> be
>>>>> showing a new, (*Untitled), tab containing just the notes that
>>>>> you
>>>>> have
>>>>> tried to paste from the system clipboard (not, of course,
>>>>> Denemo's
>>>>> own
>>>>> clipboard of Denemo Objects). (I expected it to show them
>>>>> already
>>>>> selected, but they appear un-selected, however, they do then
>>>>> get
>>>>> copied
>>>>> and pasted into the original tab if you respond with "Yes" to
>>>>> the
>>>>> dialog. Which means the wording of the dialog is bad :( ...)
>>>>
>>>> Attached you find two screenshots of a simple test. The first
>>>> shows
>>>> the
>>>> test file before I Paste Lilypond notes. The second one shows
>>>> what it
>>>> looks like directly after invoking the command, and after
>>>> selecting
>>>> yes
>>>> from the dialog it goes back to the first screenshot. The text in
>>>> the
>>>> clipboard was "f2" (without the quotes).
>>>
>>> What is being output to the terminal? The first time I used it I
>>> got a
>>> lot of stuff from the Guile interpreter commenting on the compiling
>>> of
>>> the script into bytecode (I'm running Guile version 2) but
>>> subsequent
>>> use gives this output:
>>>
>>> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8
>>>> <8>
>>> Using existing lexer file
>>> Using existing lexer file
>>> Using existing lexer file
>>> Using existing lexer file
>>>
>>> :::::::: Parser Start ::::::::::
>>> ((x_CHORD (x_NOTE ("d" . 0) "" "" "" "" "") . ""))
>>>
>>> :::::::: Parser Finished ::::::::::
>>>
>>> ============= Here is the final list =============
>>> ============= ====================== =============
>>> ((x_MOVEMENT
>>>    (((x_SEQUENTIAL
>>>        (x_CHORD (x_NOTE ("d" . 0) "" "" "" "" "") . ""))))))
>>>
>>> ============= ====================== =============
>>>
>>> Now to execute the creation script
>>>
>>> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8
>>>> <8>
>>>
>>> This is with "d" on the system clipboard.
>>>
>>> What do you have?
>>
>> With "f4" on the clipboard, I get the following:
>>
>> <8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8>
>> <8>
>> Lex error:
>> /usr/share/denemo/actions/notes.l:1:
>> 2: white space expected.
>
> Can you post your file
> /usr/share/denemo/actions/notes.l
> it should be a copy of
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=denemo.git;a=blob_plain;f=actions/notes.l;hb=HEAD
>
> which does have whitespace at line 1 column 2.

The file /usr/share/denemo/actions/notes.l is identical to the one
downloaded from the online git at the given link. It contains a tab at
line 1 column 2.

>> Lex error:
>> /usr/share/denemo/actions/quote.l:1:2: white space expected.
>>
>> Lex error:
>> /usr/share/denemo/actions/block.l:1:2: white space expected.
>>
>> Lex error:
>> /usr/share/denemo/actions/incl.l:1:2: white space expected.
>>
>> ;;; Stat of /home/andreas/.denemo-2.2.11/actions/notes.l.scm failed:
>
> presumably the Lex failure meant it didn't create 
>
> /home/andreas/.denemo-2.2.11/actions/notes.l.scm
>
> and so nothing came of it all.
>
> If you get up the Scheme Script Window and put 
>
> (version)
>
> in the CLI and hit <Return> it should output to the terminal the Guile
> version you are running inside Denemo. (Not that there is any reason
> Guile 1.8 shouldn't be just fine as that was the version this LilyPond
> importer was last developed with).

=> 2.0.13

> If the notes.l file is not corrupt I'll have to dig down into the
> script that reads it (things like actions/lalr.scm ...)

If you want to debug with my Debian build, you know where to find the
packages ...

Andreas