Re: Error in lily-library.scm with 2.15.14

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> This creates the error:
>
> \version "2.15.14"
>
> \paper {
>     first-page-number = -1
> }
>
> \relative c {
>     c1
> }
>
> Setting first page number to -1 seems to be the problem. In the actual
> score, I set this, in conjunction with custom headers and footers, to
> start page numbering with 1 on the third page - first page is the
> frontispiece, second page is blank.

Setting first-page-number to --1 triggers the same error, this time
complaining about 1.0 instead of 1.  So this is clearly a problem in the
frontend that converts to float when negating without good reason.  I'll
take a look and likely commit a fix today.

-- 
David Kastrup