Re: Moving from lilypond 2.18 to 2.19

[Matt Wallis]

On 22/11/2017 16:33, David Kastrup wrote:
> You know: the minimal example would have been
>
> \midi { \time 4/4 }
Nice minimalism! And I thought I'd done well to reduce the original 200+ 
lines in 4 files down to 13 in 1!
> and that would have saved adding a lot of other explanation:
... which shows my lack of understanding about what was the true nature 
of the problem...
> > The error is triggered by the use of \global in the midi block when
> > global contains "\time 4/4". Incidentally, if the midi block contains
> > a \key signature, but no \time, then it works fine in 2.19.80.
> >
> > I can understand that \time is irrelevant to midi (as is \key?), but
> > I've used this lazily in the past because it works.
> It is intended to work.  I am surprised that this has been overlooked
> for so long.
>
> > I'd be interested to know if you think the correct fix is to restore
> > the original 2.18.2 behaviour, or to output an error message that
> > identifies the line that causes the problem.
> I'm currently writing two fixes.  One makes a better warning, the other
> does not trigger it.
Great. Thank you.