Re: Weirdo code?

[Wols Lists]

On 28/01/18 20:09, David Kastrup wrote:
> Wol's lists <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I've just tried to do a cut-n-paste into a piece of music, from
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars
>>
>> At the very bottom you'll find
>>
>> \relative c' {
>>   c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.segno" }
>>   c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.coda" }
>>   c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.ufermata" }
>>   c1
>> }
>>
>> Okay, I was only copying the markup bit - I wanted it as markup in the
>> middle of the bar - but I had to add a # as follows:
>>
>> \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" }
>>
>> Looking at the code behind the web page, it looks like that is
>> correct, so this is really just a curious enquiry - why is the #
>> required if I want a markup, but it's not required if it's a markup
>> within a mark ???
> 
> Different versions.  It's just recently that you could write strings
> within a markup without # before them.  The Documentation is likely
> newer than your version of LilyPond.
> 
Thank you both ...

I'd like to run the latest version :-) but at the moment my main machine
is bit-rotting until I get the chance to build my new one...

Cheers,
Wol