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Re: Staff.instrumentName
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Reinhold Kainhofer |
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Re: Staff.instrumentName |
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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:41:45 +0100 |
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Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 21:29:40 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering. What's the difference between
>
> \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Violin I "
>
> and
>
> \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violin I "
>
> since both seem to work in my little experiments.
There is no fundamental difference. The # simply indicates that the following
expression is a Scheme (the programming language that is used to tweak
LilyPond) expression. For strings the parser treats them similar with and
without the #. However, other expressions like numbers need the # in front of
them, otherwise you'll get errors.
For this reason, our docs use the # also for strings, and everyone is advised
to do the same for reasons of consistency. As you noticed, it is not strictly
required, but still a good idea.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
* http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
* LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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