"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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However, I'm now back to my original problem first reported
in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-07/msg00063.html
Could someone else on Windows please check they see
this problem too. If so, I'll see if I can narrow it
down to a specific release.
Trevor
I've never tried the book functions, but can tell you what the
problem is. Your report says:
snippet-map--1679029745.ly:4:57: illegal character in escape
sequence: #\U
Line 4 in the snippet map is
#(ly:add-file-name-alist '(("3e/lily-0cba8859.ly" .
"C:\Users\Trevor\LilyPond-git\Documentation\music-glossary.tely")
so it honks on the \ after C:\.
There's a straight quote of the filename, which in windows uses a
backslash: \ (in Unix, I think the directory separator is a
forward slash: /). Backslash is also used to denote a control
character, so \n is a newline, for example. So the interpreter is
trying to view \U as a control character, which is not, so it
barfs. The normal fix is to make each backslash a double:
C:\\Users\\Trevor etc. Dunno if this is helpful, but that's what
I think is happening.