On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:54:54AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
> For example, on p.98 of the PDF version of the 2.12.2 NR the following
> example appears about half way down the page:
>
> \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f }
> c2 d
> \repeat volta 2 { d4 e f g }
>
> If you try to build this using 2.12.2 on Windows you get
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected NOTENAME_PITCH
>
> c2 d
>
> and the output is two separate staves rather than the single staff shown
> with the example. The whole thing has to be surrounded by \relative c'' { }
> to get the desired output.
>
> The reason I ask is that I remember a post from someone a while ago saying
> that the code as shown in the manuals had been used to produce the output.
If you click on the image of the musical example, and copy/paste the
appropriate code, it should compile.
I believe this is explained in the Learning Manual, but it's not
something that is immediately intuitive, IMO. We might want to make
this information more prominent.
-Patrick
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