Nate Whetsell <nathan.whets...@gmail.com> writes: > I’m trying to programmatically add items to score headers from an alist. This > works when an item consists of just a string. I can’t seem to get this to > work when an item is a markup, no matter how the markup is entered. Is there > some way to store markups in an alist, and then use those markups in a header? > > Below is an example illustrating the issue I’m having. Any help would be > greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Nate > > ``` > \version "2.22.0" > > \paper { > scoreTitleMarkup = \markup { > \column { > \fromproperty #'header:piece > \justify-field #'header:instruction > } > } > } > > #(define instructions '( > ; Using a LilyPond code block does not work. > (1 . #{ > \markup { > "Does not work"
' introduces a non-evaluated constant expression but you need to evaluate #{ ... #} to get a markup. So try #(define instructions `( ;; note backtick instead of forward tick (1 . ,#{ ;; note comma to evaluate one part of the ;; quasi-quoted list -- David Kastrup