Am Di., 2. Okt. 2018 um 22:37 Uhr schrieb Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca>: > > Hi Harm, > > > val = "foo" > > << > > \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 c'4 > > \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val2 \val4 } > > \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val4 \val2 } > >>> > > > > Your proposal would make it impossible. > > Another good example — thanks. That being said, putting a syllable in a > variable and then adding durations to it seems to me — as someone who > engraves a *huge* amount of vocal music, from a wide variety of styles, > genres, and eras — like a *much* "fringe-i-er" case than the number of cases > that would benefit from restricting \variableName2 to count as a variable > name. > > Regardless, it doesn’t seem like there’s much enthusiasm to pick up the > feature request.
Not so hasty ;) Though, I second David. We would need a logical coherent method. Without having to much drawbacks. Honestly, I don't have such a proposal and even if I would have one, I'm not able to implement something like that. Otoh, counting use-cases is not a bad argument either. Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user