Re: \note markup

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Donnerstag, dem 26.11.2020 um 11:39 -0500 schrieb Trevor Bača:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:57 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2020-11-24 3:44 pm, Trevor Bača wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > ### BEGIN ###
> > > 
> > > \version "2.21.80"
> > > 
> > > \markup { \note #"4.." #UP }
> > > 
> > > ### END ###
> > > 
> > > GNU LilyPond 2.21.80
> > > Processing `test.ly'
> > > Parsing...
> > > test.ly:3:17: error: wrong type for argument 1.  Expecting duration,
> > > found
> > > "4.."
> > > \markup { \note
> > >                 #"4.." #UP }
> > > 
> > /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily.scm:1036:21:
> > > In procedure reverse! in expression (ly:parse-file file-name):
> > > 
> > /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily.scm:1036:21:
> > > Wrong type argument in position 1: (1 "4.." . #f)
> > > 
> > > What am I missing here?
> > 
> > The syntax changed.  You no longer specify the duration as a string, but
> > as a duration:
> > 
> > %%%%
> > \markup { \note 4.. #UP }
> > %%%%
> > 
> 
> In 2.21.80?
> 
> I'm getting something like this:
> 
> %%%
> \version "2.21.80"
> \markup { \note 4.. #UP }
> %%%
> 
> GNU LilyPond 2.21.80
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> test.ly:2:17: error: syntax error, unexpected SYMBOL
> \markup { \note
>                 4.. #UP }
> test.ly:2:26: error: Unfinished main input
> \markup { \note 4.. #UP }
> 
> fatal error: failed files: "test.ly"

As David said, the right tool for this is convert-ly. And it will
convert the example (if you say \version "2.20.0" at the beginning) to:
%%%%
\markup { \note {4..} #UP }
%%%%
(note the curly braces)

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