Hi Kevin, see: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/lilypond-variables.html Not enough time to go into details.
Cheers, Pierre 2015-01-25 8:51 GMT+01:00 Kevin Tough <[email protected]>: > Hi Folks, > I'm trying to get up to speed with variables but I am missing something > obvious or the documentation is not clear. > > In the example the escaped \cm generates an escaped character not > recognized error message. If I stick it in a layout block it is > recognized. Then however the variable is not longer seen outside that > scope. > > The use of the variable name "name" to hold the value "Wendy" causes a > warning that "name" is a keyword. > > Here is my code... > > \version "2.18.2" > > \language "english" > > \layout { > indent = 0.0\cm > % \omit Voice.StringNumber %defeat number display above treble staff > width = 4\cm > } > > name = "Wendy" > aFivePaper = \paper { paperheight = 21.0 \cm } > > % Now use these variables... > \paper { > \aFivePaper > line-width = \width > } > > { > c4^\name > } > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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