-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 21:29:40 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: > Hi, > > Just wondering. What's the difference between > > \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Violin I " > > and > > \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violin I " > > since both seem to work in my little experiments.
There is no fundamental difference. The # simply indicates that the following expression is a Scheme (the programming language that is used to tweak LilyPond) expression. For strings the parser treats them similar with and without the #. However, other expressions like numbers need the # in front of them, otherwise you'll get errors. For this reason, our docs use the # also for strings, and everyone is advised to do the same for reasons of consistency. As you noticed, it is not strictly required, but still a good idea. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJeiuLTqjEwhXvPN0RAjoAAJ4jfEKrzYw8alhx5qhDd+BZydWW3wCeOKhN SUlN469JwlojixaUiJFUWok= =RI9S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
