Re: Lilypond

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

pagani laurent writes:

Can someone answer Laurent?

> Hi Jan,
>
> Sorry to disturb you (possibly I should have gone to some forum but
> this is so fundamental for me that if the answer is no, I won’t use
> Lilypond, so I don’t want to bother entering the forum if it is to
> leave it immediately).
>
> I am having a look at Lilypond and I have a very simple question :
> I wrote a very simple test score :
>
> \version "2.22.0"
> {
> c' e' g' e'1 <e e''' e''>2
> }
>
> and the compilation ran without error :
>
> Traitement de « /Users/laurent/Desktop/test.ly »
> Analyse...
> Interprétation en cours de la musique...
> Pré-traitement des éléments graphiques...
> Détermination du nombre optimal de pages...
> Répartition de la musique sur une page...
> Dessin des systèmes...
> Conversion à « test.pdf »...
> Compilation menée à son terme, avec succès.
>
> However, there is an obvious error : the e’1. 
>
>
>
>
> Does this mean that Lilypond will not report such errors when writing
> a score ? That would be worrysome because that means that after having
> written tons of pages, one has to go through the final product to
> check for such errors and then locate them in the input file (I guess
> there is no such interface as with some Latex editor where the pdf and
> the latex are linked so that clicking on the pdf text, you are
> directed to the corresponding latex code) which might not be very
> obvious. If this is explained further in the manual, just tell me to
> read the manual completely but again I won’t embark in this long task
> if it is to give up at the end...
>
> Thanks
> Laurent
>
>
>
> It’s tough to make predictions- especially about the future.
> Yogi Berra
>

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