Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi David,
>
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:35 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have my doubts about the importance of this feature.
>
> One of my recent large-forces arrangements included 8 independent horn
> parts,
"horn1" = { ... }
\"horn1"
already works and keeps the stuff in different variables.
Of course, so does \horn-I \horn-II ... \horn-VIII
Unless you are iterating through your horns programmatically, the new
possibilities don't appear to offer an advantage.
> Even without considering the [very powerful] possibilities of
> programmatically generating variables with this feature, I have ZERO
> doubts about its importance in allowing Lilypond to more deftly handle
> large scores.
Sure. I just don't see a significant increase in deftliness here. It's
more of a "while we are at it, we might as well" feature.
--
David Kastrup
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