Re: voiceOne and oneVoice

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Silvain,
> > I'd say singleVoice would even be clearer.
> > But I think maybe it would also be a good idea if we had a synax like \voice 
> > number. Currently Lilypond only supports four voices, and any more requires 
> > knowledge about the scheme interface, but \voice1 \voice2, ... could directly 
> > support an arbitrary amount of voices.
> One problem with this suggestion that Lilypond does not support the 
> simple use of digits in variable names.
> As far as I understand, it is because a digit following directly 
> alphabetic characters is interpreted as a duration.

That's true, but in this case, it's a feature not a bug: If there were a 
music function \voice accepting an integer parameter, then LilyPond 
would parse \voice1 equivalently to \voice 1.

voice =
#(define-music-function (number) (index?)
   #{
     <>^#(format #f "(voice ~a)" number)
   #})

\relative {
  \voice1 c'4 d e f
  \voice3 g f e d
}

Of course this function does not do anything useful yet.

Lukas