Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

[David Sumbler]

I include my code below - this is as far as I got before discovering the problem.  Jakob, I don't seeing the code will help: if there were a significant problem with it, then normally Lilypond would report warnings and errors upon compilation.  But as I said, it reports nothing!

And yes, Hans, I was definitely using a capital 'V', and I also tried other versions such as 'lilypond -l DEBUG Cloud/LilyPond/file.ly', with the same result every time: nothing gets compiled, and no anomalies are reported.

Here is the file so far:

\version "2.24.1"

\language "english"

\score {

\relative {

\time 4/4

\key d \major

\partial 8

d'''8 |

cs d cs d c d c d |

b d b d bf d bf d |

a d a d as d b d |

c d cs a d2 "|."

}

}

On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jakob Pedersen wrote:

Hi David,

It might be beneficial if you would share your lilypond file, or shortened version of it, so that the smart folks here can look at it and point you in the right direction.

Best wishes,
Jakob

On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 19:21 +0100, Hans Aikema wrote:

David, are you sure you’re using a capital V? Because if you use a lower-case V you end up in the —version mode of Lilypond, which will indeed output similar output as the usage info printed when you invoke lilypond without any argument (though the latter will include usage instructions, where lilypond -v will only print the version header)

Extract from lilypond —help:

-v, --version                    show version number and exit

-V, --verbose                    be verbose (equivalent to --loglevel=DEBUG)