On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 20:14:41 (-0800), Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello Lilypond friends, > > I am working on a polyphone piece of music which employs a ChoirStaff, and > proceeded to make a local layout block in the score a global one. > > The include to make a *global* layout block works just fine, but if I > eliminate the layout block in the score block itself, the music no longer > compiles. Please see the comment starting with % [Help]. > > Any ideas why this might be? Other pieces where I have only a single voice, > I rely only upon the global block from an include, and compules fine > without a layout block in the score block.
A \score on its own will produce a PDF. Such a \score, with a \midi added, will produce just a MIDI. A \score with both \midi and \layout will produce a PDF and a MIDI. Your score has a \midi and so, without a \layout, no PDF would be produced. Cheers, David.
