Re: Error: \override DynamicTextSpanner.style = #'none

[Nick Payne]

On 04/05/13 16:22, Derek wrote:

I am wanting to override the DynamicTextSpanner and I pulled the example
straight from the lilypond website and it won't compile. Running 2.16.2 
\paper {

}

\layout {
  
}

\header {

} % begin verbatim


\relative c'' {
  \override DynamicTextSpanner.style = #'none
  \crescTextCresc
  c1\< | d | b | c\!
}

tarting lilypond 2.16.2 [lily-df2a164d.ly]...
Processing `/home/shmk/Desktop/lily-df2a164d.ly'
Parsing...
/home/shmk/Desktop/lily-df2a164d.ly:30:37: error: syntax error, unexpected
'=', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN
  \override DynamicTextSpanner.style 
                                     = #'none

You've pulled your example from the 2.17 docs, not the 2.16 docs. You need to use

\override DynamicTextSpanner #'style = #'none

instead. See http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes.