Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > >> # goes into Scheme, and #{ goes into music mode then. > > Yes, that makes sense in retrospect. > >> If you write #{ then # goes into Scheme and Scheme has no idea what { >> is supposed to be. >> > > And tells you so, in no uncertain terms. ;)
Oh, that would be better than what I'd expect. Which would rather be throwing a tantrum and making a big mess. But the first words of the tantrum might still make some sense if you manage focusing on them. >> I've not fundamentally changed LilyPond's design. > > Sorry… That was not meant to be a comment on your work I didn't really take it to be. It was just pointing out that I am more of an improver than a designer. Two days ago Han-Wen was looking over my shoulder and pointed out helpfully where I wrote \override NoteHead.style = #'mensural instead of \override NoteHead style = #'mensural or possibly \override Notehead #'style = #'mensural and it was really jarring for me to realise just how quietly I have been treading. The LilyPond Han-Wen has been familiar with will still answer him in the accustomed manner. In Stanisław Lem's "Pilot Pirx" series there is a story "Terminus" where a repair robot hammering lead as a sealant does it repeating Morse sequences of previous cosmonauts who perished in a catastrophe it was part of, and Commander Pirx on a whim knocks some question into the mindless sequences of the robot and gets responses. > — just pointing out that Scheme is daunting enough to start learning > without hearing that the main thing you’re planning to wrestle with > (at least in the short term) is made up of "icky things". > >> I've not really had much of a wrestling match with markup and their >> commands yet. > > Perhaps once I’m more comfortable with Scheme I can start to wrestle > with them, and you can "tag in" when I’m pinned. Let's see where we get when. -- David Kastrup