Re: scheme-function to provide value for \include

[Urs Liska]

Am 29.06.2016 um 17:12 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:05:59 +0200
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Basically you are expecting something akin to the #include of the C
>>> preprocessor to accept calls of functions defined in C for specifying
>>> the file to include.
>>
>> Except that in C #include is significantly different from the rest of
>> the C syntax. #-lines are all different and independent of C-lines and
>> syntax.
> 
> The same with LilyPond.  You can put \include in the midst of any
> LilyPond construct without bothering about nesting.  Try
> 
> a.ly:
> 
> \score { a_\include "b.ily" } }
> 
> b.ily:
> 
> 3^\markup { hi
> 
> This is not the mark of a construct working in a syntactical context.
> 

That's not what Johan is talking about. What he refers to is that the C
#include syntax *looks* completely different from regular C/C++ code, so
nobody will mistake it for a regular function call or whatever.

But \include *looks* like it's working the same as \shape.

Urs


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