Am 08.07.26 um 18:07 schrieb Knute Snortum:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 8:50 AM [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 8, 2026, at 9:51 AM, Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 7:42 AM David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:
> This morning I have found that charts I could render
yesterday without problems now fail. Nothing has changed in
the files or my Lilypond installation since I last rendered
this chart yesterday afternoon. I have no idea what has
happened and am probably missing something terribly obvious
(since that seems to usually be the case).
>
> FWIW MacOS 26.5.1.
>
> The log:
>
> Starting lilypond 2.26.0 [Wassup MWE.ly]...
> Processing `/Users/tim/Music/Music Charts/Lilypond
Charts/Rock Tunes/Just The Two Of US/Wassup MWE.ly'
> Parsing...
> /Users/tim/Music/Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Rock
Tunes/Just The Two Of US/Wassup MWE.ly:31:1 <0>: error:
markup outside of text script or \lyricmode
That happens when you are inside of some pair of braces
rather than at
top level.
You probably added some spurious brace. The input file you
quote does
not quite correspond with the line numbers of this error
message, so you
probably are not compiling what you think you are compiling.
You have typographical quotes in your input file:
%%% Start
melody = \relative c' {
\numericTimeSignature
\time 4/4
\clef treble
\key f \minor
\override Staff.KeySignature.break-visibility = #all-invisible
\override Staff.Clef.break-visibility = #all-invisible
% 1
\bar ".|" % This had a typographical quote on the end
c'1 % This had a typographical single quote
\bar "|."
}
%%% End
Thanks for catching those. Curious that they even happened since
the file was edited solely within Frescobaldi and it does not
enter typographic quotes. Fixing them did not fix the problem,
unfortunately.
Could the problem lie in an \include .ily file instead?
I would check your opening and closing braces, as David said. I found
a few strays in your input file.
Your MWE can be much more "minimal." If you think it's the include
files, try commenting them out and everything that relies on them.
Check the braces. Keep removing things until the problem disappears,
then backtrack one step.
--
Knute Snortum
The \melody looks strange, even after removing the typographical quotes.
The block starts with { and stops with } } }.
BTW: With Frescobaldi as editor, you get already an indication of the
error with the quotes. If you don't use it, I recommend a try.
Regards
Helge
