Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you for asking (and answering) this question! I always wondered
about this. Now I have a solution which is better than spelling out
numbers.

Ken

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 8:44 AM stefano franchi
<stefano.franchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right, so I'm stupid. All it takes is to enclose the variable_with_number 
> names in quotes....
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:37 AM stefano franchi <stefano.franchi@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Here is a question for anyone who may have been using lilypond for projects 
>> involving text and many, many, short and similar musical snippets.
>>
>> I am putting together a book that will contain many (very brief)  exercises, 
>> grouped thematically. I had thought a convenient and flexible way to 
>> organize the material and keep future maintenance under control would be to 
>> create top level variables names for the main musical categories and 
>> sub-categories and then assign each score snippet to progressively numbered 
>> variable. So I would have, CategA-1 = {"code for one exercise"} , CategB-2 = 
>> "code for another exercise"}, and so on. Clean structure, easy to maintain 
>> and rearrange, etc.
>>
>> Then I discovered that lilypond does not allow numbers in variable names.... 
>> :-(
>>
>> I'd be willing to bet my use case is not particularly weird---there must 
>> have been other people encountering the same problem.
>>
>> How have you guys managed it?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> S.
>>
>>
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