I have been learning Lilypond over the past few weeks. I am entering a song with piano that I wrote. Even though I am using the template for this I keep getting fatal errors. It'll work for a while and then when I add more notes I get a fatal error. I get syntax errors, barcheck errors, unexpected string (these actually happen in the \score section which is directly from the template).
I have actually made it work/display properly past these problems. However, I tried to change the text = \lyricmode tag to experiment. And then it didn't work; so I went back to how the template is written and now its just showing two lines one staff and no music.