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Re: Validity check for lilypond files
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Validity check for lilypond files |
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Sat, 03 Nov 2018 22:36:15 +0100 |
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Noeck <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to check the validity of a .ly file?
>
> I am thinking of a syntax check – so basically if the parser/lexer can
> read it. It should (a) be quick and (b) not produce any output (could be
> deleted as a last resort).
>
> Is there something in python-ly that does that? It looks like the
> Frescobaldi auto-engraving only runs if the input is valid.
>
> I guess to check everything, I would have to run lilypond on it and see
> if there are any warnings or errors. But I am willing to have less
> coverage if I can get the result faster.
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
You could just turn all of LilyPond's processing hooks for various
syntactic elements into do-nothings in your own init file and then read
the various inputs. That should be rather fast.
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David Kastrup