OK. Please consider my suggestion as obsolete, but I'd like to clarify
what I intended to say (but obviously failed to do so)
Quoting David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>:
Urs Liska <li...@ursliska.de> writes:
Would something like
%@5 a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 |
be an option?
The combination'%@' would indicate that the next token is meant as a
measure number (or any other pointer to the structure of the content).
Except that inside of comments, there is no such thing as a "token".
Which is part of a comment's appeal. And a comment that is a "pointer
to the structure of the content"? I don't see how a comment be any such
thing, but then I have a problem parsing this parenthetical addition
anyway.
What I thought of was that
%@
would assume an implicit closing tag after the next white space, so
you can write
%@5_ (the underscore meaning a space character)
instead of
%{ 5 %}
so that the rest of the line is considered as non-comment.
That probably was a silly idea because its only real advantage is some
slightly less typing.
Of course it was misleading to use 'keywords' like pointer etc. I
meant special comments that indicate a measure number or any other
indicator of a musical structure (e.g. partI, verse, coda etc.)
An editor could use such entries (i.e. specific syntax, starting at
the beginning of a line) to create a document outline, e.g. point to
@5 entries in all parts.
You lost me _way_ back.
Of course I know that syntax changes shouldn't be taken lightly,
though ...
There is nobody keeping you to put whatever editor-hinting comments into
your LilyPond source file using the existing comment syntax. I don't
see what another comment syntax would buy you in that regard, though.
You're probably right.
Everything I could want could also be achieved with the existing
command syntax.
Urs
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