Re: identifiers

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Mike Amundsen <address@hidden>:

> While creating identifiers for fret diagrams I found the identifiers
> can be alpha only. I've searched the archives to see if there was a
> discussion that described the reasons for that constraint. I'd guess
> it's for reasons of simplicity and/or something to do with the
> interoperability of C and Scheme.

My guess is that the problem rather is that numbers are used for 
durations in the music, so it's probably a matter of parser complexity.

This limitation was introduced many years ago and we had other mailing 
list names at that time, so I'm afraid the archives
may be lost.

I hope you have found that the limitation is described in the manual, 
in the section on "File structure".

> Thanks to all who have contributed to the development of lilypond. I'm
> still a beginner but having lots of fun creating some great looking
> output.

  /Mats