Thank you for asking (and answering) this question! I always wondered about this. Now I have a solution which is better than spelling out numbers.
Ken On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 8:44 AM stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right, so I'm stupid. All it takes is to enclose the variable_with_number > names in quotes.... > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:37 AM stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Here is a question for anyone who may have been using lilypond for projects >> involving text and many, many, short and similar musical snippets. >> >> I am putting together a book that will contain many (very brief) exercises, >> grouped thematically. I had thought a convenient and flexible way to >> organize the material and keep future maintenance under control would be to >> create top level variables names for the main musical categories and >> sub-categories and then assign each score snippet to progressively numbered >> variable. So I would have, CategA-1 = {"code for one exercise"} , CategB-2 = >> "code for another exercise"}, and so on. Clean structure, easy to maintain >> and rearrange, etc. >> >> Then I discovered that lilypond does not allow numbers in variable names.... >> :-( >> >> I'd be willing to bet my use case is not particularly weird---there must >> have been other people encountering the same problem. >> >> How have you guys managed it? >> >> Cheers, >> >> S. >> >> >> -- >> __________________________________________________ >> Stefano Franchi >> >> stefano.fran...@gmail.com >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano_Franchi > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > > stefano.fran...@gmail.com > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano_Franchi