Check to make sure that the manual you are using is for the same version
as the lilypond that you are using.
I didn't pay attention to this and had the same problem.
Jay
Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
...into LSR being working again.
For some reason, lilypond refuses to compile any snippet from the
...into LSR being working again.
For some reason, lilypond refuses to compile any snippet from the
manual. For instance, lily-1260486893.ly from the manual (the first
example about notes)
lilypond test.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.5.31
Processing `test.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing gr