Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>> Why make the user wait so long to make him fix a misspelled word or
>> make him put a curly brace? A first pass should be done without
>> \score blocks and abort (or at least ask if you want to continue!)
>> if this first pass produces errors.
>
> This sounds sensible; maybe this suppression of processing `\score`
> blocks can be implemented in Scheme so that LilyPond with a special
> command line option acts as a syntax checker.

Have you actually tried?  Apart from scores placed in explicit books and
bookparts, LilyPond already delegates the typesetting until after the
whole input file has been parsed.

-- 
David Kastrup