Re: Getting the name out of a Scheme object

[Thomas Morley]

2015-01-14 10:16 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> If I have a Scheme object like
>
>
> (#<Grob DynamicText >)
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>
> how can I retrieve "DynamicText" as a string?
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> TIA
>
>
> Urs



Hi Urs,

try

#(define grob-name
  (lambda (x)
    (if (ly:grob? x)
        (assq-ref (ly:grob-property x 'meta) 'name)
        (ly:error "~a is not a grob" x))))

{
    \override DynamicText.after-line-breaking =
    #(lambda (grob)
      (display (grob-name grob)))
    a'1\f
}

HTH,
  Harm