On 23-Apr-06, at 2:50 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
What, exactly, is the semantics of the \new <context> = <name> ...
syntax? As far as I understood the discussion leading to this
syntax, it should be equivalent to
\context <context> = <name>
if that context wasn't already created and it should
issue a warning if the context already existed.
IIRC, it was decided that no warning would be issued. This was to make
the implementation easier; I believe that there was some mention of
upcoming 3.0 syntax changes that would change \new and \context
further, and thus it didn't make sense to spend a lot of effort on it
right now.
As the following example shows (and the last example in
"More Stanzas", for example), what really happens is equivalent
to \new <context>, i.e. you get a new instance of the context
with some anonymous name. Also, no warning is issued.
\version "2.8.0"
\relative <<
\new Staff = FIRST \new Voice { c1^"in FIRST" }
% Should at least issue a warning:
\new Staff = FIRST \new Voice { e1 e^"2nd incarnation of FIRST" }
% Which of the above two will this one end up in?:
\context Staff = FIRST \new Voice { g1 g g^"back in FIRST" }
>>
Disregarding the warning issue (in HWN's words, "Don't Do That"), this
example works (if you rename the second FIRST to SECOND).
It seems that whoever updated the examples such as the
last example in "More Stanzas" rather had the impression
that
\new <context> = <name> ...
will always be equivalent to
\context <context> = <name> ...
which clearly isn't the case, so this is a problem both
in the implementation and the documentation and example
files.
I didn't think that \new was the same as \context, but I also don't
claim to fully understand this issue. As far as I know, right now \new
works well other than not giving warnings.
The issue with "More Stanzas" is that I was updating the docs during a
music theory lecture, and (as always) I don't really know what I'm
doing with vocal music. The two
\new Lyrics = "mainlyrics"
are obviously a mistake. I've changed the second one to \context, and
it looks right to me.
Cheers,
- Graham
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