Re: why doesn't opus = ##f work?

[James Bailey]

On Jul 18, 2010, at 10:38 PM, Roland Goretzki wrote:

> Hallo Liste, hallo Bernhard,,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
>> I have two score blocks and don't want the opus to be printed when the 
>> second score starts. Follwing the fine manual I tried
>> \score {
>>  ...
>> \header {
>> piece = ##f
>> opus = ##f
>> }
>> }
>> which didn't work as (I) expected.
>> 
>> I really don't dare to present my workaround ... ok, here it is:
>> opus = " "
> 
> Why are You calling this a workaround?
> AFAIK this is the way to achieve what You want.
> I would only omitt the " ":
>    opus = ""
> instead of
>    opus = " "
> 
> (To the others: Tell me, if I'm wrong here, please.)
> 
> Best Regards                    Roland

I would have agreed, and asked why you would have thought that opus=##f would 
work, but based on the example in the documentation, it makes a lot of sense as 
to why you would come to that conclusion. For future reference, the idea of 
setting the field to be empty, i.e., usually works well for any kind of markup, 
if you don't mind the space being taken up by a markup that's emtpy.