Re: Partcombine Documentation: Example Error

[Thomas Morley]

2018-07-18 15:03 GMT+02:00 James Lowe <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:09:15 +0200, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 2018-07-17 11:55 GMT+02:00 Ben <address@hidden>:
>> > Good morning,
>> >
>> > I've been reading up on partcombine recently and I wanted to try out a few
>> > examples from the documentation to help me really understand the command,
>> > however I get this error with one example:
>> >
>> > From:
>> >
>> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining
>> >
>> > Error:
>> >
>> > warning: unterminated slur r2 g'4( f8 e) |
>> >
>> > -------
>> >
>> > I have not modified the code at all, just copy and paste.
>> >
>> > I thought it was due to some voice-issue but I can't figure out how to fix.
>> > Thanks for any help.
>> >
>> >
>> > Code:
>> >
>> > musicUp = \relative c'' {
>> >   \time 4/4
>> >   a4 c4.( g8) a4 |
>> >   g4 e' g,( a8 b) |
>> >   c b a2.
>> > } % begin verbatim
>> >
> ...
>
>>
>> As Torsten already stated, it's a bug.
>>
>> First bad commit:
>>
>> commit b357d2084d1ae252a890e92019e62aa8ccbfdafc
>> Author: Dan Eble <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Wed May 27 20:56:37 2015 -0400
>>
>>     Issue 4423: eliminate part combiner's array of context handles (3/4)
>>
>>     Use NullVoice instead of Devnull for the "null" context.  This makes
>>     all outlets a kind of Voice.
>>
>>
>> Introduced in 2.19.22
>>
>> cc-ing Dan and the bug-list
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Harm
>
> Can you give me a technically-meaningful title for the tracker?
>
> I cannot think of anything.
>
> James

Hi James,

I've no clue why it happens, so I'd go for the symptom. Something like
"partcombine warns erroneously for unterminated slur".

Cheers,
  Harm