Re: #'minimum-length trouble

[Mats Bengtsson]

My guess is that the actual error is somewhere earlier in
the file. I've seen similar errors when I had a string argument
to some property setting where I had forgot the final double
quote.

   /Mats

David Bobroff wrote:
> I'm having something odd happen.  I'm using:
>
> \property Staff.MultiMeasureRest \override #'minimum-length = #N
>
> quite a bit.  Now I get:
>
>  lilypond-book falstaff.ly
> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 1.7.18
> Reading `/home/lily-puts/falstaff/falstaff.ly'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 1534, in ?
>     do_file (input_filename)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 1396, in do_file
>     chunks = chop_chunks (chunks, 'lilypond-block', make_lilypond_block,
> 1)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 943, in chop_chunks
>     m = get_re (re_name).search (str)
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion limit exceeded
>
> If I then comment out the last addition of the \override, which brought
> on the problem, I still get the above error.  If I actually remove the
> commented-out material from the *.ly file the error goes away.
>
> Two questions: 1) Why am I getting the error in the first place? and 2)
> Whe does commenting out the offending code not remove the error?
>
> I can send the file but it is over 40k.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Bobroff
>
>
>
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