lilypond-user
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: variable

From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: variable
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:49:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm sorry for the trivial question but why this code is wrong?
>
> \version "2.19.80"
>
> music = {a b}
> \music
>
>
> My understanding was that "\music" is substituted by its value "{a b}"....

You need to put anything in between.  LilyPond looks at \music before
deciding the assignment is complete because the assignment could be

music = {a b} \addlyrics {Oh well}

For that it needs to decide what \music is but the assignment is not yet
complete...

-- 
David Kastrup
reply via email to
[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]