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Re: ly2dvi problem
From: |
Michael Vanier |
Subject: |
Re: ly2dvi problem |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:38:06 -0800 (PST) |
Your suggestion worked; thanks!
Mike
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:48:25 +0100
> From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
>
> > OK, I manually cleaned out all traces of the previous installation and
> > re-installed lilypond 1.3.110. I didn't get the previous error, but I did
> > get this:
> >
> > % ly2dvi menuet.ly
> > ly2dvi (GNU LilyPond) 1.3.110
> > executing: lilypond menuet.ly 2>&1
> > GNU LilyPond 1.3.110.
> > Now processing: `menuet.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > menuet.ly:7:12: error: parse error, expecting `SCM_IDENTIFIER':
> > \key g;
> >
> > ly2dvi: LilyPond failed: lilypond menuet.ly 2>&1
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Yes, your input file is written for an older version of
> Lilypond, the syntax has changed. It's a good practice
> to include a
> \version "1.3.xx"
> declaration in the Lilypond files, where xx is set to the
> corresponding Lilypond version. If you have that, you can
> use the program convert-ly to automatically upgrade your
> input files.
>
> For \key signature declarations, in particular, you should
> now say
> \key g \major;
> to get the major key.
>
> /Mats
>