"Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not a Scheme programmer, but how does one concatenate more data onto the
> end of an existing variable? Is there a string concatenation expression in
> scheme that will let someone "add onto" the end of a string using subsequent
> commands. For example (below is in a java pseudocode where "+=" means
> concatenate to self) how to do same in scheme?
>
> varVoiceMelody = \relative c' { a4 b c
> varVoiceMelody += d | e f
> varVoiceMelody += g a |
> varVoiceMelody += }
>
> So that the final value of varVoiceMelody is left being:
>
> \relative c' { a4 b c d | e f g a | }
>
> I want to write some macros that when stated simply append their output to
> variables already existing in my lp templates, these macros hopefully will
> simply generate "varVoiceMelody += whatever" expressions to append to the
> proper master variables in the lp code.
What you want is not string concatenation. { a4 b c d } is a music
expression, not a string, so look how it is stored internally:
\displayMusic { a b c d | }
\displayMusic { e f g a | }
\displayMusic { a b c d | e f g a | }
You'll see a SequenceMusic element, containing a list of EventChord and
BarChack elements in its 'elements property. So what you'd like is
appending two lists. But there is another, easier, solution. Compare:
\displayMusic { a b c d | }
\displayMusic { e f g a | }
\displayMusic { { a b c d | } { e f g a | } }
(the latter being equivalent to { a4 b c d | e f g a | })
There, you build a SequentialMusic object which elements are the
previous value of the variable, and the music that is to be appended. A
possible implementation (not tested):
appendToVariable =
#(define-music-function (parser location symbol music)
(symbol? ly:music?)
(ly:parser-define! parser symbol
(make-music 'SequentialMusic
'elements (list (ly:parser-lookup parser symbol)
music)))
(make-music 'SequentialMusic 'void #t))
myvar = { a4 b c d | }
\appendToVariable #'myvar { e f g a | }
{ \myvar }
nicolas
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