Re: Use of variables to add lyrics

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-07-16 07:18, Michael Hendry wrote:
> I had tried creating a variable for each \column’s contents, and then
> for the \fill-line section, and lost heart when I got error messages
> from the compiler.

By any chance, were you attempting to do something like this?

%%%%
  foo = \column { "abc" "def" "ghi" }
%%%%

If so, you'd probably see errors like:

> error: unknown escaped string: `\column'
> error: string outside of text script or \lyricmode

You need to use \markup when defining the variable:

%%%%
  \version "2.19.82"
  lyrA = \markup \column { "abc" "def" "ghi" }
  lyrB = \markup \column { "jkl" "mno" "pqr" }
  lyrAB = \markup \fill-line { \null \lyrA \lyrB \null }
  \lyrAB \lyrAB
%%%%

-- Aaron Hill