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.fran...@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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