Re: installation parenthesis problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Help:
> I installed lilypond on my Redhat 7.1 machine.  When I issue the command =
> 
> ly2dvi -P filename
> where the contents of filename are
> 
> /score {
>    /notes { c'4 e' d' }
> }
> lilypond complains that the parenthesis don't match.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Yes, read the first error message, not the second one:
 error: parse error:
/
 score {

The commands should start with backslash, not slash, so the
following should work without problems:
\score {
   \notes { c'4 e' d' }
}

   /Mats