Re: Staff.instrumentName

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 21:29:40 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering. What's the difference between
>
>       \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Violin I "
>
> and
>
>       \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violin I "
>
> since both seem to work in my little experiments.

There is no fundamental difference. The # simply indicates that the following 
expression is a Scheme (the programming language that is used to tweak 
LilyPond) expression. For strings the parser treats them similar with and 
without the #. However, other expressions like numbers need the # in front of 
them, otherwise you'll get errors.
For this reason, our docs use the # also for strings, and everyone is advised 
to do the same for reasons of consistency. As you noticed, it is not strictly 
required, but still a good idea.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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