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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

That works!

Thanks,
Ken

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>