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

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