Re: Simple substitution for oddFooterMarkup?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Trevor Bača wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking over 12.1 and 12.4 and I'm still struggling with the
> following task:
>
> I want to store
>
>  boldPageNumber = \markup { \fill-line { \bold \fontsize #3
> \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \fromproperty
> #'page:page-number-string } }
>
> in a standard include file called standard.ly and then write
>
>  \include "standard.ly"
>
>  \paper {
>    oddFooterMarkup = \boldPageNumber
>  }
>
> This isn't right, however. The interpreter says
>
>  Parsing...ERROR: Unbound variable: print-page-number-check-first
>
> Can anyone help with the right way to store the longish markup command
> in an external file for inclusion later in the paper block?
You probably have to copy the definition of 
print-page-number-check-first from
ly/titling-init.ly into your include file. The reason is probably that 
it's defined using
(define ...) instead of (define-public ...) and that your function 
definition is
outside the "scope" of the definitions in titling-init.ly (I don't know 
any details
on how this works, though).

  /Mats