Thanks Simon and Kieren, Indeed the r1 was the culprit. I will add the | marks from now on.
Erik > in both these parts you had a 4-beat rest (r1) in a 3-beat bar. the > error message about a barcheck failing was also being output. > misplaced bars and beats will almost always cause a score to end up > looking weird. at which point it's a good idea to read the process log > to see what errors turn up. lily can be fairly verbose, but you can > normally spot your errors through the log. another good practice is to > _always_ use bar checks in your scores. where you expect a bar-line, > put | in your score. if the beats are off at this point, lily will > scream at you. : _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user