Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

[Nick Payne]

On 17/05/13 17:45, Paul Malcolm wrote:
> excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer.
> I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title.
>
> I have this in the preamble
>
> date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))
>
> What I want to do is somehow add/concatenate this to a text string
> for the name of person doing the arranging, which appears in the
> header block, i.e.
>
> arranger = "Arr.  Maestro Smithington-Smythe"
>
> How do I do this so I finally see
>
>    Arr. Maestro Smithington-Smythe, 17/May/2013

Something like this:

date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))
Arranger = "Arr.  Maestro Smithington-Smythe"

\header {
  composer = "Composer"
  title = "Title"
  arranger = \markup { \Arranger \date }
}