On 5/8/23 12:19, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 11:27 -0400, dfro a écrit :
Jean,
Thank you, for catching my omission of the CC to
lilypond-user@gnu.org. I intended to reply to the group.
The use of variables for the \paper block makes more sense to me.
However, I see that sometimes the numbers have no "#" before them,
and sometimes they do as with:
inst-name-indent = #4.8
...and sometimes they do not, as with:
left-margin-title-page = 45
Also, setting true and false values use "##", as with:
ragged-last-setting = ##f
I am still not comprehending why the "#" is used sometimes and
sometimes not. I am trying to grasp the nuances of how the lilypond
language and the scheme language translate to each other.
Somewhere, in the documentation it talks about lilypond using the "#"
to translate values into scheme language. Leaving off the "#" with
numbers seems to break this rule.
inst-name-indent = 4.8
and
inst-name-indent = #4.8
are equivalent. LilyPond offers the first as syntactic sugar for the
second. When it sees a number, it interprets it as number, like the
Scheme interpreter behind # would have done. The exception is markup mode.
There is no such syntactic sugar for booleans, so you have to use an
initial # to switch to Scheme mode. The second # is part of the syntax
of booleans in Scheme (#t and #f, or #true and #false).
I also have a question about modes. Is normal mode where you input
data outside a music block or without stating a mode explicitly, as
with "\include "..."? I do not see it mentioned in "Notation
Reference Manual, 3.1 Input modes".
What I called “normal mode” is what the manual calls “note mode”.
Thank you, for the clear explanation of why \paper must be used for a
"set-..." variable outside the main \paper block. That makes sense to
me now.
I hope this is not too far off topic, but your "42 is the answer"
reference led me to find this interesting article that is way over my
head:https://news.mit.edu/2019/answer-life-universe-and-everything-sum-three-cubes-mathematics-0910.
Interesting, thanks for the link!
Best,
Jean
Jean,
Thank you again, for the clear explanations!
Peace,
David