Re: Lilypond manual

[Graham Percival]

On 22-Sep-05, at 4:47 PM, Suzanne Blatt wrote:

> i've been trying in vain to get Lilypond 2.6 up and running on my SUSE 
> 9.3, so I switched to the Windows side of my computer and installed 
> Lilypond 2.7.  As a test, I went to the manual and typed verbatim an 
> example and it didn't work.  I found a similar thing on the Linux side 
> of my machine with Lilypond 2.4 and assumed that it was a version 
> problem.

> Can anyone shed some light as to why the manual examples are not 
> working?

Many of the manual examples are presented as fragments -- ie

c4 c c

To make a complete lilypond input file, you need to add { }

{
c4 c c
}

- Graham