> Why make the user wait so long to make him fix a misspelled word or > make him put a curly brace? A first pass should be done without > \score blocks and abort (or at least ask if you want to continue!) > if this first pass produces errors.
This sounds sensible; maybe this suppression of processing `\score` blocks can be implemented in Scheme so that LilyPond with a special command line option acts as a syntax checker. Werner