Re: String syntax, Was: substitution with \movement

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:10:56 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> >All the time that it's getting passed as a scheme value, for
> >example
> >  \set instrumentName = #"cello"
> >
> >Not for things like
> >  \markup { this "is some quoted text" }
> >  
> Which brings us back to the original problem, namely the
> inconsistency of the syntax. Even with my 11 years of
> LilyPond experience, I have to think both once or twice
> to figure out in what syntactical constructs a string is
> a Scheme value and when it's not (I'm not even convinced
> that it ever can be anything else than a Scheme value,
> without checking in the source code). I know the issue
> has been discussed before and I don't think it's a big
> problem, but it's still an annoyance.

All the more reason to get the docs clear on this.  :)

If users only ever see #"" in the right place and "" in the
others, plus the info in the LM about this stuff, it should be
fine.

Cheers,
- Graham