On 2-Feb-06, at 7:22 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:
When I leave out the end bracket to a triplet figure in line 18,23/24
(in jedit) [see example below] the error message is that I have
something wrong with
score\
\new Staff \ melody
when in fact the problem is way before that - a missing bracket.
This doesn't make sense to me, can someone explain it?
Two explanations:
1) Error detection is hard -- by assumption, something is wrong with
the file, and computers don't deal with unexpected input very easily.
2) Since the bracket isn't there, lilypond thinks that you're defining
a \score outside of the main body of the lilypond file (or outside of a
\book).
I mean, how _should_ lilypond know that you only intended to have three
notes inside the \times? Remember that \times 2/3{ a8 a a b b b} is
perfectly valid input.
- Graham
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