David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, September 05, 2012 4:12 PM > Here is another "cure" for that request: if we can get used to writing > "violin1" = { ... } > for defining a name with numbers in it, it would be an obvious syntax > extension to allow its invocation as > > \"violin1"
As this wouldn't break existing scores this looks like a possibility to me. It's quite a natural extension to use quote marks when a string contains 'strange' characters. > A somewhat non-obvious disadvantage is that this is likely to confuse > the syntax highlighting of editors used to C-like strings, since \" is > not a string delimiter at least inside of C strings, and so it might not > be considered a string starter. Hm. Might cause lots of %" to be inserted. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel