Re: custom keysignature help

[Mats Bengtsson]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> Am Montag, 6. April 2009 schrieb James E. Bailey:
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> > I'm trying to figure out what the character in the custom key
> > signature is, and it's not working for me. I've tried copying and
> > pasting from the manual, but it's not working for. I get these errors:
> >     
> [...]
>   
> > Vol 1.ly:571:51: Fehler: GUILE signalisierte einen Fehler für den
> > hier beginnenden Ausdruck
> >                          \set Staff.keySignature = #
> >                                                     `(((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)
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> Should this really be a ` or rather a ' (i.e. a quote, not an accent)? The 
> thing in parentheses after the # is simply a list to Scheme and thus needs to 
> be quoted with a ', because otherwise Scheme would try to evaluate it as a 
> function call.
>   
No, it's a back quote. See for example 
http://everything2.com/?node_id=606663 for a short explanation.

   /Mats