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Re: "Creating MIDI Files" doc is wrong
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James Harkins |
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Re: "Creating MIDI Files" doc is wrong |
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Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:56:00 +0800 |
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> 1. If I write it as specified in the manual, I get a syntax error.
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> 2. If I write it as above, I get no syntax error, and no MIDI file.
Never mind, I see my mistake now. I had extrapolated from \new Staff and \new
Voice to \new Score. LilyPond accepts \new Score (!). Possible improvement
might be to reject that wrong syntax with an informative error.
That mistake is entirely my own fault, of course -- the result of coming back
to LilyPond after a few years without writing for acoustic instruments and
trying to be clever. But it does remind me of one of my general gripes with LP:
the number of subtle syntactic variations. I *always* have to look up:
- Do I just write a number here, or prepend '#' -- 1.0 or #1.0?
- Single or double # for other entities? (#t vs ##t)
- Is it a (list of things), or a '(list of things), or a #'(list of things)?
But, yeah, the present case is my goof.
hjh