Re: How to use global variables with \Markup

[Mats Bengtsson]

Paul Harouff wrote:
> You didn't understand my question.
>
> I have 12 verses interspersed between the scores. I want to type all of the
> verses in one spot at the beginning of the file, just like choral lyrics. I
> don't want to have to search the file and edit every \markup to revise the
> text every week.
>
> Is there a way to create global variables of text and reference them in the
> \markup blocks?
>
>   

Sure:

verseI = \markup{"Here is some text for verse 1"}
verseII = \markup{"Here is some other text for verse 2"}

\verseI
\score{
 \relative c'{ c d e f }
}
\verseII