That's neat. I checked to see that unicode as well as whitespace seems to work via quoting, too.
\version "2.22" "rødgrød med fløde 123 和毛泽东 <<重上井冈山>>. 严永欣, 一九八八年. 久有归天愿 终过鬼门关 千里来寻归宿 春华变苍颜 到处群魔乱舞 更有妖雾盘绕 暗道入阴间 过了阎王殿 险处不须看 风雷动 旌旗奋 忆人寰 八十三年过去 弹指一挥间 中原千军逐蒋 城楼万众检阅 褒贬满载还 世上无难事 只怕我癫痫 " = { a b c } clarinet = \new Voice { \"rødgrød med fløde 123 和毛泽东 <<重上井冈山>>. 严永欣, 一九八八年. 久有归天愿 终过鬼门关 千里来寻归宿 春华变苍颜 到处群魔乱舞 更有妖雾盘绕 暗道入阴间 过了阎王殿 险处不须看 风雷动 旌旗奋 忆人寰 八十三年过去 弹指一挥间 中原千军逐蒋 城楼万众检阅 褒贬满载还 世上无难事 只怕我癫痫 " } On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 11:45 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 >