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> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user