Re: Don't understand this error

[David Kastrup]

Patrick Karl <address@hidden> writes:

> The following snippet:
>
> \version "2.14.2"
> notes = \relative b' {a b c d}
>
> \score {\new Staff { \notes }
>       \layout { }
> }
>
> \break
>
> \score {\new Staff { \transpose c c' \notes }
>       \layout { }
> }
>
> generates the following error:
>
>       test.ly:10:0: error: syntax error, unexpected \score,
> expecting \addlyrics
>
> and, at the end of the console log:
>
> error: failed files: "test.ly"
>
> Can anyone explain this error?  Or, how to find the problem in the docs?

It is a stupidity in the grammar of 14.2 that should be fixed in current
development.  \break is simple music, and simple music is not acceptable
at the top level.

\break \addlyrics {whatever}

however would count as complex music, and that's permissable at the
score level.

So the parser happily takes \break in the expectation that it will be
followed by \addlyrics.  And since that does not happen, it complains.

-- 
David Kastrup