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.