Re: Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-14 Thread Geoff Horton
The granddaddy, (developed in 1966), of macro processors ML/I is also free and ported to many platforms. I'm currently evaluating which one I like better myself, so far I am leaning towards ML/I because it has nested if/then/else/end and do/while structures, and it lets you fully define the synta

Re: Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > It seems that a standard preprocessor like m4 should be the best > solution to > your problems. If you search the mailing list archives, you will find a > number > of discussions related to preprocessors for purely textual replacement in > LilyPond input files. Lil

Re: Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-14 Thread Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
> It seems that a standard preprocessor like m4 should be the best solution to your problems. OK, I just wanted to know if I did something wrong. Thanks for your prompt reply. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that a standard preprocessor like m4 should be the best solution to your problems. If you search the mailing list archives, you will find a number of discussions related to preprocessors for purely textual replacement in LilyPond input files. LilyPond itself does not (and will not) incl

Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-13 Thread Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Hello, sorry if the question was already asked, but I didn't find the answer in the archive (maybe I don't know which keyword to use). So, I'd like to put the guitar chords into a variable in order to reuse them, e.g. GuitarChordC = {1} First, I would like to put the duration outside the variab