Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-07-30 Thread Peter Engelbert
I know this is late, but I just wanted to chime in -- thank you Urs for your book. I have spent many hours staring at it and enjoying it. Your book, in combination with The Little Schemer and the lilypond extension reference, have helped me start to understand the power of extending Lilypond. Yo

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/05/18 11:50, Robert Schmaus wrote: > The analogy is probably not perfect because investing time in Scheme > would benefit my overall Lilypond abilities, I guess. Learning different ways to think is ALWAYS valuable. Scheme requires a different mindset from most languages, so learning it WILL

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > Am 27.05.18 um 12:09 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Robert Schmaus writes: > >>> Ok, thanks again for the references. I think for now, I simply stay >>> within the "out of the box" Lilypond limits. I'd have to invest >>> hours of learning Scheme - that's not an option for the

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Robert Schmaus
Am 27.05.18 um 12:09 schrieb David Kastrup: Robert Schmaus writes: Thanks Aaron, it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally helpful at gett

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.05.2018 um 12:47 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Urs, that looks very good! I was desperately looking for something like this most of yesterday ... Thank you, I'm sure this will help me a lot. Great to hear. Then please support the project by taking notes (and report back to me) of anythi

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Urs, that looks very good! I was desperately looking for something like this most of yesterday ... Thank you, I'm sure this will help me a lot. Best, Robert Am 27.05.18 um 11:53 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi Robert, you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de It is *far* from complete

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > Thanks Aaron, > > it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. > > In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" > available. You'd think that they would put something up that's > acutally helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that bo

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/05/18 10:49, Robert Schmaus wrote: > From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one with > Scheme-problems. > Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise > anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get > into it, too. >

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Robert, you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de It is *far* from complete and significantly less authoritative than the other resources, but it is explicitly written with LilyPond in mind and with efforts to overcome exactly these understanding obstacles (I wrote that when my

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Robert Schmaus
Thanks Aaron, it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that book. And maybe that even was their

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-27 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi David, thanks for your reply! Real simple would be repeattype = "volta" ... \repeat \repeattype 2 { ... } ... That *is* simple ... if someone else apart from you would have suggested that this works at all, I probably wouldn't have believed it. Try define-void-function (even without

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-26 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-05-26 06:15, Robert Schmaus wrote: so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box lilypond and rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I find this language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I code in C-like languages all the time. Hi Robert, This i

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > Dear Ponderers, > > so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box lilypond and > rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I find this > language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I code in > C-like languages all the time. > > Anyway,

Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

2018-05-26 Thread Robert Schmaus
Dear Ponderers, so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box lilypond and rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I find this language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I code in C-like languages all the time. Anyway, my project was to make me a functi