Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

[Silvain Dupertuis]

Yes, it works with quotes in the variable definition as well as in the call :

Exemple

"gamme1" = \relative c' { g a b c d e f g }
\score { \"gamme1" }

Nice !!

Le 05.03.21 à 18:13, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit :

> 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.franchi@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.franchi@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.
> > >
> > >
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