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[issues:#4948] Doc: Extending - rewrite para describing LP variables in Scheme Turotial

Status: Started
Created: Sun Jul 31, 2016 04:30 PM UTC by pkx166h
Last Updated: Sun Jul 31, 2016 04:30 PM UTC
Owner: pkx166h

On 29/07/16 21:32, catalaco - wrote:

The last paragraph of 1.2.2 LilyPond variableshttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/lilypond-variables in Extending LilyPondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/index is very hard to understand.
The whole thing might need to be rewritten but I don't understand enough to do that. All I can do is offer suggestions for rephrasing, although I might be misinterpreting as I'm not fully understanding what I'm reading!

Original text

The usual way to refer to Lilypond variables, LilyPond Scheme syntaxhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/lilypond-scheme-syntax, is to call them using a backslash, i.e., \twentyFour.
Since this creates a copy of the value for most of LilyPond’s internal types, in particular music expressions, music functions don’t usually create copies of material they change. For this reason, music expressions given with # should usually not contain material that is not either created from scratch or explicitly copied rather than directly referenced.

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Rephrased

Lilypond variables are usually called using a backslash, e.g. \twentyFour (see LilyPond Scheme syntaxhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/lilypond-scheme-syntax), which creates a copy of the value. For that reason music functions in LilyPond don't usually create copies of material they change. Because of this, scheme music expressions written with the # syntax should not directly reference material. They should only be used for material created from scratch or explicitly copied.

Greetings,
Martin

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