Hello Ming,

David has correctly identified the problem. The Lilypond parser escapes guile 
string literals, so #"c:\U..." fails as \U is no escape sequence. So you need 
to escape each \ by writing \\ instead. As David has said, Lilypond might very 
well handle / instead of \.

Cheers,
Valentin

02.09.2021 14:50:52 ming tsang <ming.tsan...@gmail.com>:

> Hi Valentin Petzel:
> Here is the file. I open the lily.scm with  miscrosoft notepad and save as. 
> Thank you very much Valentin and David for your patience and helpful hands. 
> Very much appreciated.
> Shalom,
> Ming.
>  
> 
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:37 AM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote:
>> Okay, the guile version looks fine. I'll try to look into this, can you 
>> please append the file
>> C:/LilyPond_2-23-3/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm[http://2]
>> 
>> just to be sure?
>> 
>> 02.09.2021 13:07:42 ming tsang <ming.tsan...@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Hi David Wright and Valentin Petzel:
>>> Thank you both for helping.
>>> I did a (#display version) + move the eps file to a directory does not 
>>> contain space on the names.
>>> Here is the screen capture from frecobaldi v2.3.3.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> Shalom,
>>> Ming
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 8:36 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 19:15:19 (-0400), ming tsang wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> end of the lily code. I have no idea what "ice-9 format" is.
>>>>>     #"c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps"
>>>> 
>>>>                 ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ a "long" filename, and containing a space
>>>> 
>>>>> `C:/Users/YMINGT~1/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-o_s4xv8r/tmps19cuu1_/document.ly[http://document.ly]'
>>>> 
>>>>             ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ a Microsoft hack to make a short filename without a 
>>>> space
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> ming (lyndon) tsang
> 
> 
> --
> ming (lyndon) tsang

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