Re: why are all engravers quoted?

[David Kastrup]

Eluze <address@hidden> writes:

> my hiliter doesn't support hiliting keywords in quotes (or I don't know how
> to specify it)
>
> what's the risk of using the unquoted form: 
>
>   \remove Bar_engraver
>
> instead of
>
>   \remove "Bar_engraver"

The CG
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilypond-formatting>
states:

    All engravers should have double-quotes around them:

        \consists "Spans_arpeggio_engraver"

    LilyPond does not strictly require this, but it is a useful
    convention to follow.

Apart from the bad engraver name here (it's Span_arpeggio_engraver),
this advice is rather old.  It would appear to stem from

    commit a545fc2d47d53b0124f796d45def240e5f3834ab
    Author: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
    Date:   Sat Mar 29 07:48:35 2008 -0700

        Update policy.

which would be 2.11.43.

Definitely preceding
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2702> in
2.15.43.  Should that make a difference?  No idea.

-- 
David Kastrup