On Friday 12 August 2005 15.51, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Stephan Moss wrote: > > When Lilypond reads the .ly file, what is it looking for in terms of > > format (line endings, etc)? > > Line endings are treated like any other white space (spaces and tabs), > so you can write your input on a single line if you like. > > > I took a file that worked from the built in editor to Text Wrangler and > > then back again and it generated lots of errors (Unexpected #end, if I > > remember right). I wound up re-entering it in the built in editor. I'm > > assuming that Text Wrangler (from the people who make Bbedit) mangled > > the file in such a way that the parser didn't like it anymore. > > My guess is that it didn't output a plain text file but added some > extra control characters somewhere. An alternative is that it didn't > use UNIX style line endings but the old-style Mac line endings or > used the wrong character encoding. I don't know anything about this > particular editor, but usually it's possible to specify what format > the file is saved in.
I have experienced the same error message after copy&pasting from messages in kmail. Due to a kmail bug, some illegal characters were sometimes inserted in the beginning of lines. In my case, I could spot which the invalid characters were, by viewing it in less. Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
