hi

I'm new to lilypond (I use it with emacs on ubuntu) and so I started by following the tutorial carefully. unfortunately, I always receive something like this:

Parsing...
sheet-music/lilypond/hasenbraten.ly:5:2: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
d
h' d h'
sheet-music/lilypond/hasenbraten.ly:9:0: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING

h' h' h' h'


and this is what my composition looks like:

\version "2.10.33"
\header {
title = "Hasenbraten" }
melody = \relative c' {
d h' d h'
8h h a g 4a a
d a' d a'
a' 8g' f' 4g' g'
h' h' h' h'
8d' d'
}

I have tried without header, without the "melody =" bit (found that in some sample) and my version is definitely correct.
whatever might be the problem?

thanks in advance

It's the "h'" thing! In English, the "h'" is called "b'", and that's the only thing lilypond understands. In German, you'd be right...

M.

yeah, silly me...