Re: yay! for lilypond 2.15

[David Kastrup]

Stefaan Himpe <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> The code in the "Exposition" of
>>
>> <URL:http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-27&lang=en#a_kind_of_magic>
>>
>> does not help?
>
> Yes, it certainly helps. It's a big step towards shortening the score.
> (Of course I didn't see it until I had finished my experiments ;) But
> I will try to use it in subsequent experiments).
>
> Although it's not what I originally had in mind it is very well
> possible it's really all I need, I'll play a bit with it. Thanks a
> million!
>
> (In case you wonder: my original thought was I wanted to define a
> lookup table of music fragments, and being able to select fragments
> using some lookup key, e.g. a tuple of three numbers corresponding to
> dimensions in the lookup table, and then write several nested
> for-loops instantiating fragments from the table.)

It is not unlikely that $@ is what you can use for splicing a list of
lookups into surrounding music.

That little example is not necessarily what you actually want or need,
but at least it shows some building blocks that may come in handy.

-- 
David Kastrup