I've noticed some curious behaviour with \set stanza. (Admittedly, I'm abusing it a bit, so it's not surprising this wouldn't've come up in testing!)
If in a Lyrics context I put in a literal \set stanza = "*" then the name of the stanza (here an asterisk) is printed in the lyric, just as I wanted it to be, without attaching itself to a note. It does this even if there are other identical "\set stanza" marks in the same vicinity. But if I try to bundle it into a pre-packaged command, it only works if the stanza does not already have that name. Thus, it works fine the first time, but not subsequent times. Consider: join = { \set stanza = "*" } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" \lyricmode { A -- gnus De -- i, \join qui tol -- lis pec -- ca -- ta mun -- di: mi -- se -- re -- re no -- bis. A -- gnus De -- i, \join qui tol -- lis pec -- ca -- ta mun -- di: mi -- se -- re -- re no -- bis. A -- gnus De -- i, \join qui tol -- lis pec -- ca -- ta mun -- di: do -- na no -- bis pa -- cem. } When I try this in 2.10.33, the first asterisk prints but the next two don't. If I replace all the \join lines with the original \set stanza, they all print. If I replace just the second \join with a \set stanza, all three print. If I replace just the third \join, then the first and third print. I can't imagine a reason why having that in-line vs in a macro *should* affect the behaviour, though I imagine in practice it's something to do with the macro version's string being evaluated once and therefore being referentially equal to itself. Or I could be completely off-base and this could be not a bug, but a feature. :) -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://www.blahedo.org/>-=- "Even the kindest of souls occasionally harbor unkind thoughts, but if they can plausibly deny them, no harm is done." --Miss Manners _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user