Peter Toye <[email protected]> writes: > Timothy, > > This raises a further question which I can't see answered in the > documentation: exactly what characters are allowed in a Lilypond > variable name? NR says that the convention is alphabetic characters > only,
It's alphabetic characters in the ASCII set plus all non-ASCII characters, potentially interspersed with isolated single underlines or dashes. > but you seem to have found that digits and full-stops are allowed. No, they aren't. I.violin.1 = ... is an assignment of nested alists. The alist under key violin in the alist in I is assigned a new value for the key 1. > Is this documented, or did you experiment? Documentation is probably not all that extensive. -- David Kastrup
