Re: Cryptic error messages

[Mats Bengtsson]

My guess is that you missed some left or right brace when you
copied the code. If you can't manage to figure it out yourself,
include a copy of your code in a new email to the mailing list.
Also, don't forget to tell what LilyPond version you use.

/Mats

Quoting Brian Schend <address@hidden>:

> I copied the example code for SATB music, and it doesn't compile.
> Without a list
> of error messages anywhere in your documentation,
> I must assume this is a bug.
>
> Here's the output:
>
> Processing `/Users/willow/Documents/Brian/Lilypad/Vibrations/vibrations.ly'
> Parsing...
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/lilypond/current
> ly/init.ly:32:0:
> error: syntax error, unexpected SCM_TOKEN
>
> #(if (and (ly:get-option 'old-relative)
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/lilypond/current/ly
> init.ly:44:70:
> error: syntax error, unexpected $end
>   (apply ly:make-book $defaultpaper $defaultheader toplevel-scores)))
>
> error: failed files:
> "/Users/willow/Documents/Brian/Lilypad/Vibrations/vibrations.ly"
>
> With no idea what SCM_TOKEN means, I can't do anything to fix your code.
>
> I'm using OSX 10.4.8 on a Macbook using intel chips, 512MB Ram, 1.83 Ghz.
>
>
>
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