RE: scheme function help

[Peter Gentry]

I don't have any answers for you but only sympathy for a fellow struggler.

I have many years of experience with several languages but Scheme seems so 
idiosyncratic that it is difficult to learn. Each
particle of knowledge seems to be standalone and not transferable to a new 
situation nothing is intuitive.

I would plead for a better introduction to Scheme and the Lilypond interface 
especially ly: definitions more completed examples
would help.

Each tweak and frig appears as an individual the code may be cocmopolitan but 
to the tyro sounds like the tower of babel.

Lilpond is great but it is b***** hard to learn.