Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Paul,

Am 17.05.2013 09:45, schrieb Paul Malcolm:
> excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer.
> I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title.
>
> I have this in the preamble
>
> date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))
>
> What I want to do is somehow add/concatenate this to a text string
> for the name of person doing the arranging, which appears in the
> header block, i.e.
>
> arranger = "Arr.  Maestro Smithington-Smythe"
>
> How do I do this so I finally see
>
>   Arr. Maestro Smithington-Smythe, 17/May/2013
>
> ?
to concatenate strings you can use
#(string-append "Arr.  Maestro Smithington-Smythe"  ", " (strftime 
"%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time))) )

or
#(format "~A, ~A" arranger date)
(if arranger and date are variables with the desired strings)

To use this in a headerblock, you can use a construct like this:


\header {

arrangername = "Arr.  Maestro Smithington-Smythe"

arrangerdate = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))

arranger = #(string-append arrangername ", " arrangerdate)

}


HTH

Best, Jan-Peter