Hi David (W.),
> I don't have enough background information to know whether the
> introduction of "\lyrics" was to improve consistency with its
> friends, or just for brevity (popular in the unix world).
> Yesterday I was leaning to the latter, in which case one could
> imagine contractions like "\new Voice" → "\voice".
As you wrote yourself below, these shorthands are for places where you
would have to specify both a new context and an entry mode otherwise:
\new ChordNames \chordmode { … } -> \chords
\new DrumVoice \drummode { … } -> \drums
\new FiguredBass \figuremode { … } -> \figures
\new Lyrics \lyricmode { … } -> \lyrics
For normal music you don't need to specify the input mode (\notemode)
and the staff is created automatically. So in some way
\new Staff \notemode { … } has the shorthand { … }.
> However, after stumbling on NR p589, I see that this change
> is being, or has been, applied only to mode-specifying commands
> so it wouldn't affect the commands alluded to above.
Yes.
Cheers,
Joram
PS: If one alreay understood the different modes and contexts, this
cheatsheet might help to remember them:
http://joramberger.de/files/lilypond_sheet_2.18_en.pdf (on the right on
the same line as the captions).
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