On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'm not sure what "appears in the patch" should mean. It definitly means that numercial-symbol selectors don't get shown and cannot be written into a patch, so you cannot use them in the editor where "real" selectors should be written, like in [route].
Forgot to add: Of course it is possible and legal to "use" numerical or non-printable symbols as selectors, but they have to be constructed dynamically and cannot be typed, in accordance with the restrictions mentioned in the manual. Instead something like this can be used:
[makefilename %d] | | [makefilename %d] | | [select symbol-dummy]
I used [makefilename %d] a lot in the rj library's [m_chorddict] dictionary for chords, where some chord names are proper symbols, like "m7", while others are floats like 7. The float-names get converted to symbols internally to look up chord notes in a data structure array keyed by symbols only (using [m_symbolarray]).
Ciao
Frank