Re: LilyPond strings and \markup

[Neil Puttock]

2009/8/17 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> Alternately, we could be stricter about this -- I wouldn't mind if
> we insisted that people use
>  \override foo #'bar = #5
> instead of allowing the non-# form, if then we could state as a
> general rule that overrides required a # after the =

That's fine for simple overrides with numbers and strings, but would
be very confusing for novice users trying to wrestle with the correct
syntax for markup in scheme (when they're probably already struggling
with \markup {  } syntax).

Regards,
Neil