On 22 June 2011 19:16, Travis Gould <travis_go...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am brand new to Lilypond and have just spent 90 minutes trying to figure
> out how to get a simple piece of input (anything) to convert over and be
> displayed as a .pdf file. I've tried copying bits from the welcome text
> document into a new file and then clicking on "Compile" then "Typeset file"
> and I've tried typing in the various simple examples that are shown in the
> tutorials, but what keeps happening (no matter what I've typed into the text
> document) is this:
>
>
> Processing `/Users/travisgould/Desktop/bob's happy day.ly'
> Parsing...
> /Users/travisgould/Desktop/bob's happy day.ly:0: warning: no \version
> statement found, please add
> \version "2.14.1"
> for future compatibility
> success: Compilation successfully completed
>
>
> I've tried adding the \version "2.14.1" command to the text document in
> various ways and places, but the same message keeps coming up when I try to
> compile the document. I'm using a MacBook with OS X version 10.5.8. Any
> help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and
> for creating lilypond and making it available for free!
Sometimes new users define a variable but actually do not "call" this
variable. Hence it compiles successfully but no output is displayed.
Do you have a \score block in your "bob's happy day.ly"?
If you define a variable with
myVariable = \relative c' { c1 % my music here, etc. }
do you have in your \score block somewhere a
\myVariable
?
Cheers,
Xavier
--
Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>
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