Re: NR 6.5.2., 6.7

[Mats Bengtsson]

Regarding NR 6.7, the current text is misleading (if not wrong). It says 
that
"|\tweak| doesn’t behave like an articulation regarding the syntax"
but in fact you can use
c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 \flageolet
What's correct about the current formulation is that you cannot use
c^\tweak #'font-size #-3 \flageolet or c_\tweak #'font-size #-3 \flageolet

However, this is not the problem with the example shown in the manual.
There, the syntactic problem appears in the attempt to define the macro F
and is rather related to the syntactical limitations of what you can do in
a macro definition.

/Mats


Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > N.R 6.7 shows the use of Scheme code as an articulation. The reason why
> > this works is unclear to me, but I can see there is some power here. An
> > explanation would be really helpful. The articulation that is added 
> > is not
> > a Scheme function, but rather the return part of a Scheme function.
> An articulation is represented by a Scheme expression (not a Scheme 
> function):
> (make-music
> 'ArticulationEvent
> 'direction
> 1
> 'articulation-type
> "flageolet"))
>
> Here, a Scheme function is used, which constructs such an expression. 
> These things are pretty
> common in the world of Scheme and similar languages. I once worked 
> with a huge program
> implemented in LISP, where the program constructed new LISP 
> expressions, which were
> evaluated and in their turn constructed new LISP expressions which 
> were evaluated ...
> and in the end returned something. I can honestly say that none of us 
> at the company understood
> fully how that program worked, but for some weird reason it seemed to 
> work fairly well anyway.
>
> /Mats
>
>
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