Re: piano split problem

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2020-05-17 at 10:05 -0400, aaron mehl wrote:
> <<
>   \new Voice = "1" { \voiceOne  { c''8 a' g'4 b'2 } }
>   \new Voice = "2" { \voiceTwo  { f'4 e' <c' f'>2\arpeggio } }
> >>
> \time 5/4
> <e' f' a' b'>4 <b f' a'>2 <f' a'>2|
> <<
>     \new Voice = "1" {d'16 e' a'8 b' b' d'' d''~d''16 c'' b' a' d' g'
> a' g'}
>     \new Voice = "2" {r4 a'8 d'' c'' b'~b'16 r16 r8 r4}
> >>
> -----------
> I get this error
> /home/aaron/Documents/mycompositions/Vocal/Aaron-Mehl-This-is-no-
> Common-Breeze.ly:144:26: warning: this Voice needs a \voiceXx or
> \shiftXx setting
> \new Voice = "2" {r4
> a'8 d'' c'' b'~b'16 r16 r8 r4}

I get

Starting lilypond 2.20.0 [Untitled]...
Processing `/tmp/frescobaldi-6stulacc/tmpyfecnh4x/document.ly'
Parsing...
/tmp/frescobaldi-6stulacc/tmpyfecnh4x/document.ly:6:1: error: syntax
error, unexpected <

<e' f' a' b'>4 <b f' a'>2 <f' a'>2|

but, this is irrelevant, as I don't know what you want the output to
look like. Can you create a picture of what you want to typeset? You
can do it by hand with a pen if need be and send a photo.

Richard