Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

[David Kastrup]

Maarten Deen <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2018-10-02 22:56, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Harm,
>>>
>>>> val = "foo"
>>>> <<
>>>>  \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 c'4
>>>>  \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val2 \val4 }
>>>>  \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val4 \val2 }
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your proposal would make it impossible.
>
> Thanks for the examples. Obviously I'm not such a hard core user to
> see all the problems that are associated with my lament.
>
>> It's not like we don't have this discussion pretty much every year.
>
> But the solution offered by Kieren did not work in 2.16.2 (didn't test
> other versions).

2.16.2 is, like, really old.  Released more than 5 years ago.  If you
are doing typesetting of new scores, there is really not much of a point
of fighting the constraints of software as old as that.

-- 
David Kastrup