On 24 November 2017 at 09:49, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

> Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm sorry for the trivial question but why this code is wrong?
> >
> > \version "2.19.80"
> >
> > music = {a b}
> > \music
> >
> >
> > My understanding was that "\music" is substituted by its value "{a
> b}"....
>
> You need to put anything in between.  LilyPond looks at \music before
> deciding the assignment is complete because the assignment could be
>
> music = {a b} \addlyrics {Oh well}
>
> For that it needs to decide what \music is but the assignment is not yet
> complete...
>

Thank you David!

It is a bit frustrating. Even apparently simple things are complicated....
but that's ok.
Thank you, g.
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