Re: Conditionally including lyrics

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/2/11 4:28 PM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Matthew Collett <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Incidentally, this is one the places in which I find lilypond's
>> refusal to allow numerals in variable names irritating: I'd much
>> rather label the stanzas 'verse1', 'verse2' etc., but have to choose
>> between the verbose 'verseOne', 'verseTwo' or the awkward 'verseA',
>> verseB'.
>
>"verse1" = \lyricmode { Hallelujah }
>
>$verse1
>
>Yes, pretty is something else, but this is one interesting sideeffect of
>recent changes.

But IIUC, you still can't do \verse1.

So I think it's a bad idea to push this -- a scheme variable name that
isn't a valid LilyPond variable name.  That is, of course, unless we want
to do away with LilyPond variables, and make them all Scheme variables.

Thanks,

Carl