Re: lilypond-book

[Mats Bengtsson]

Werner's suggestion was to allow for both
\lilypond+c d e f+
and
\lilypond{c d e f}

(of course, it can be done with a fairly simple regular expression
including an 'or', however it grows fairly quickly with the number of
pairing characters to support).

   /Mats

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >
> > > > Are you saying that the trick used in \verb is bad or just that
> > > > we should never mention the example below in any documentation
> > > > or that we should use the \verb trick but handle pairing characters
> > > > specially?
> > >
> > >
> > > The last one.  All editors will benefit.
> >
> > Agreed! Unfortunately, the implementors will suffer. A direct
> > implementation of the \verb trick is a one line change (see the
> > attachment), whereas your suggestion is much harder to implement without
> > major surgery to the current lilypond-book implementation.
>
>
> Is it that difficult? I would say it is a matter of doing
>
>   \\lilypond({(?P<code>[^}]+)}|(?P<delim>.)(?P<code>.*)(?P=delim))

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