Re: Music function interfere with variable name

[David Kastrup]

foxfanfare <address@hidden> writes:

> In my piano scores, I use a lot a music function which can draw little hook
> to indicate the hand separation. We discussed this in this post :
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Layout-of-a-piano-hand-indicator-tp184061p212748.html
>
> I currently use the code that Harm wrote last year. The problem I just
> encounter is when I use specific variable in my score, it could interfere
> with the function. I cannot use the X anymore, like X.title if I want a
> variable for the name of the 10th movement in my work. I guess it's related
> to the absciss in the function but I don't have the skill to understand it
> properly.
>
> My question is the following, can this function be corrected to avoid that
> bug or does that mean that I definitely cannot write anymore roman numbers
> in my variables? (note that the function works when I write "x" but crashes
> with "X").

Naming a variable X will likely crash LilyPond since X is already used
to designate the X axis and quite a bit of Scheme code depends on it.
Try using longer variable names.

-- 
David Kastrup