Re: Including tweaks in a variable

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hello Michael,

it works if you add \etc to the variable (in lily-dev 2.19.x IIRC):
smNote = \tweak font-size #-2 \etc
That way smNote becomes a music-function that takes the note as argument 
and the tweak is applied.
If you are using 2.18 you have to create the function like this:
smNote = #(define-music-function (m)(ly:music?) #{ \tweak font-size #-2 
#m #})

HTH
Jan-Peter

Am 01.03.2018 um 15:33 schrieb Michael Stickles:
> This should be simple, but I just can't seem to get it to work.  I'm 
> working on re-doing a lot of our church music, and use variables 
> extensively to help make the .ly files more readable. There are a lot 
> of places where one vocal part splits and we want the "secondary" 
> notes to be smaller, resulting in code like this:
>
> <f  \tweak font-size #-2  f,>1
>
> What I want to do is replace the "tweak" section with a variable, like 
> this:
>
> smNote = \tweak font-size #-2
>
> <f  \smNote  f,>1
>
> But this results in errors:
>
> error: unknown escaped string: `\smNote'
> error: wrong type for argument 3.  Expecting symbol list or music, 
> found #<Book>
>
> (the "smNote" definition is at the end of the variables section, and 
> the first line after the variables section is "\book {" )
>
> Some online searching came up with a few suggestions, but none of them 
> worked for me. Given that they worked for the original posters, I'd 
> guess I implemented them incorrectly, but I can't figure out what I'm 
> doing wrong. Ideas?
>
>
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