Re: When to Use Pound Signs

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> {
>   \override Staff.Clef.font-size = .5
>   R1
> }
>
> still returns an error,

I don't think writing 0.5 is too much to demand.  4. is a duration.

> as well as
>
> \markup \fontsize 5 "xy"
>
> So there are still limitations.

Markup commands don't do contextual interpretation of their arguments
(or default arguments) at all.  They are like they always were.
Frankly, music function arguments were such a horror to get to the state
where they are now...

> In general, whenever you are in LilypPond-syntax and you see/write a
> `#' then the parser knows a guile-expression follows and will act
> accordingly.

Which means that it will just pass the job to the Scheme reader and pick
up after the Scheme reader has consumed one sexp.

-- 
David Kastrup