Re: using variable within make-pango-font-tree

[David Kastrup]

menelikke <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
> does anybody knows if and how is possibile to use a variable within
> "make-pango-font-tree" function, please?
>
> I'm using
>
> \version "2.18.2"  % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions.
> \include "global.ly"
> \paper {
>   #(define fonts
>      (make-pango-font-tree  \docfont 
>                             "Arial"                                   
>                           "Arial"
>                             (/ staff-height pt 25)
>      )
>    )
> .
> .
>
> where docfont is a variable defined as
>
> docfont = "Papyrus"
>
> in the external "global.ly" file.
>
> Using that i get a "GUILE" error at expression starting from here
>   #
>    (define fonts
>
> Please note that 
> docfont = "\"Papyrus\""
> doesn't work too. 

You are in Scheme already within the define, so you just need to write
docfont instead of \docfont here.

-- 
David Kastrup