Re: Lilypond 2.19.82 with multiple voices seems to fail

[Andrew Bernard]

HI James,

This elusive defect comes up a lot. See the User archives. I have seen in
on Linux also, when attempting to help people with it in the past. But I
cant see it is worth expending effort on it since it is, simply put, a
stilted way to enter music on lilypond. I am unable to see the necessity
for it. The example is incredibly simple piano music, and this way of
entering the score offers nothing significant or crucial or essential -
except bugs in compilation. Plus, it's also hard to read the code.

Perhaps there should be something in the learning manual that indicates
this is not the best way to enter music. Or something.

If the OP is interested, I can recast his score in what I consider a more
normal way - it would be very little effort, in order to show how to do it.

Andrew


On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 18:07, James <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 03/03/2019 01:54, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> > You won't find bug reports about this, but if you search the user
> archives
> > you will find this comes up a lot.
>
> I don't haunt the user lists (I've enough to do keeping up here!) but I
> wonder if there has been any 'finger-in-the-air' check here to see which
> OS these users run LP on?
>
> I saw Thomas' comment about it working fine on his system but for
> instance, we know from experience that Windows and Mac Builds can behave
> 'differently' in these odd cases.
>
> So @Dave, what OS are you using and again just for comment, what RAM do
> you have installed (I seem to recall some 'memory leak' type issues that
> would simply fall over on Windows in a simillar fashion? If Dave is
> using Windows then quite often you will see something in the Application
> Event Logs (not that will necessarily help us but it can sometimes point
> somewhere).
>
> *If* we could reproduce this on an OS (and we have David's ly file now)
> then perhaps it would be useful for a tracker?
>
> Regards
>
> James
>
>