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
