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From: | Chris Yate |
Subject: | Re: Programmatically building music-function names |
Date: | Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:05:25 +0000 |
On 15 Jan 2016 17:26, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Chris Yate <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to typeset a number of short pieces into multiple scores in one
> > file. I can do this manually, as:
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>
> > This doesn't work; my substitution syntax is clearly wrong here, but
> > I'd be interested to see if there's a way to do it. Or does the way
> > the code is parsed mean music functions can't be referenced in this
> > way?
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> A score is not music.
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> And you cannot splice identifiers like
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> \music#number
>
> That's just nonsensical. Try something like
> --
> David Kastrup
Thanks David (and Caio too for your suggestion), that's the syntax I was looking for. Basically, forming a symbol by concatenation and to have it evaluated in the input file.
However, for its simplicity I think I probably prefer Urs's method, even if it makes the input file a bit longer.
Chris
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