Re: substitution with \movement

[Arjan Bos]

May I chime in a bit here? This prodding of the scheme interpreter is  
one of the few things I do not like in the lilypond syntax. I do love  
LilyPond and as a programmer at heart, I adore its syntax. However, as  
a programmer, it is my duty to let the computer do the work instead of  
the user. This resonates badly with the scheme intergration in the  
lilypond syntax. To my mind, it should be possible for the parser or  
lexer to do a lot more work so that the scheme interpreter is woken-up  
automatically instead of being prompted by a token in the syntax. This  
will result in a much cleaner .ly files.

I'm sure we've all had that feeling. Starting of with typesetting a  
simple melody and then enhancing the lay-out bit by bit until the  
notes are buried underneath a stack of lay-out commands. I do my best  
to separate lay-out from content, but there are situations where this  
is either not possible (like in fingering instructions) or not  
advisable (like with the dynamics). Opening up one of my guitar  
scores, I am daunted by the fact that it looks so complicated that I  
need lots of comments not to get lost.

I am fully aware that it will be a lot of work on the developers side  
to implement this. But please consider it. Let it burn on the back- 
stove for a while, let it stew and when you are ready, please consider  
implementing it. It would make the source-code of our nice looking  
scores so much simpler to read. (And yes, I did consider doing it  
myself, but I'm more a COBOL-guy ;-) )


Kind regards,
Arjan


On 11 jun 2008, at 12:33, Valentin Villenave wrote:

> 2008/6/11 Stefan Thomas <address@hidden>:
>
> > But unfortunately this doesn't work:
> > langsamer = {  \movement "subito meno mosso" "4" #69 }
>
> You have to add a # before each quoted string:
>
> langsamer = {  \movement #"subito meno mosso" #"4" #69 }
>
> It's in order to tell the Scheme interpreter: "hey, wake up! Here's a
> string for you!"
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
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