Re: Syntax error encountered while engraving a successfully updated Mutopia ly file

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-11-29 12:03 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;
>
>   I downloaded a Mutopia Greensleves ly source and successfully
> converted it to 2.20.0 but get the following error when engraving:
>
> ././updated_greensleeves.ly:68:22: error: syntax error, unexpected
> SCM_TOKEN, expecting ',' or '.' or '='
>   top-markup-spacing
>                      #'padding = #10
>
> The output from convert was only the version numbers.
>
> Please tell me how to fix this.
>
> The engraving did succeed as there were pdf and midi files produced.
>
> The paper section, below, is where the error occurs:
>
> \paper {
>   first-page-number = 2
>   print-first-page-number = ##t
>   top-markup-spacing #'padding = #10
>   markup-system-spacing #'padding = #7
>   system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #14
> }

convert-ly knows how to fix this:

%%%%
  \override Thing #'property #'sub-property = #'value
% ...to...
  \override Thing.property.sub-property = #'value
%%%%

It does not however seem to correct:

%%%%
  variable #'key = #'value
% ...to...
  variable.key = #'value
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill