Re: Junk string in ly -> midi -> ly conversion

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 20 lug 2016 alle 16:14, Mojca Miklavec 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> I wanted to test the conversion from midi to Lilypond. I took a midi
> file generated with LilyPond, converted it to LilyPond with
>
>
> arch -32 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly test.midi
>
> (I didn't find any more intuitive way to do the conversion)
>
> But then lilypond failed to process the generated ly file:
>
> >  lilypond test-midi.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.19.44
> Processing `test-midi.ly'
> Parsing...
> test-midi.ly:16:32: warning: non-UTF-8 input
>   \set Staff.instrumentName = "
>                                ??a
> test-midi.ly:16:33: warning: non-UTF-8 input
>   \set Staff.instrumentName = "?
>                                 ?a
> test-midi.ly:16:32: error: EOF found inside string
>   \set Staff.instrumentName = "
>                                ??a
> test-midi.ly:16:32: error: syntax error, unexpected end of input
>   \set Staff.instrumentName = "
>                                ??a
> fatal error: failed files: "test-midi.ly"
>
>
> This is easy to work around by deleting / manually changing the
> instrument name, but it's weird enough that LilyPond cannot process
> its own files.

Hi Mojca

It's an issue with your system.
The file format of test-midi.ly is wrong:

$ file tmp/test.ly
tmp/test.ly: ASCII text

$ file tmp/test-midi.ly
tmp/test-midi.ly: data

in particular this line:

\set Staff.instrumentName = "\FE\FF
a

\00u\00r\00e\00k"

Find attached my (correct) .ly file generated from the MIDI file.

test-midi-linux.ly
Description: Text Data