I also wondered why numbers are not allowed in variables.
As for me, I used things like A, B, C instead... but it is less practical.
My guess is that it may be linked to the way numbers are used in notes and chords to
indicate duration, otherwise it would be real nice to be able to use digits in variable
names...!
Le 05.03.21 à 17:37, stefano franchi a écrit :
Here is a question for anyone who may have been using lilypond for projects involving
text and many, many, short and similar musical snippets.
I am putting together a book that will contain many (very brief) exercises, grouped
thematically. I had thought a convenient and flexible way to organize the material and
keep future maintenance under control would be to create top level variables names for
the main musical categories and sub-categories and then assign each score snippet to
progressively numbered variable. So I would have, CategA-1 = {"code for one exercise"} ,
CategB-2 = "code for another exercise"}, and so on. Clean structure, easy to maintain
and rearrange, etc.
Then I discovered that lilypond does not allow numbers in variable names.... :-(
I'd be willing to bet my use case is not particularly weird---there must have been other
people encountering the same problem.
How have you guys managed it?
Cheers,
S.
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