Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

[Kevin Cole]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 4:56 PM Kevin Cole <dc.loco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided to move all of the fretboards from various scores to a
> "summary" score at the top -- sort of a "legend" so that the scores
> would not take up so much space.
>
> I'm defining a variable named frets and then, later:
>
> %%%%
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new ChordNames \frets
>     \new FretBoards \frets
>   >>
>   \layout { }
> }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new ChordNames \chordNames
>     \new Voice = "mel" { \melody }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto mel \words
>   >>
>   \layout { \autoBeamOff }
> }
> %%%%
>
> Two files:
>
> > %%%%
> > frets = \chordmode {  f4 c4:7 g4:7 c4 bf4 d4:m }
> > %%%%
>
> and
>
> > %%%%
> > frets = { f4 bf4 c4 }
> > %%%%
>
> respectively, work fine. The third has a bit more going on, but adding:
>
> > %%%%
> > frets = { g4 c4 a4 d4:7 }
> > %%%%
>
> now gives me:
>
> > error: not a duration
> >  g4 c4 a4 d4:
> >              7
>
> (Without the frets score, everything is fine.)

P.S. BTW, since people often ask, I am using LilyPond 2.22.1