> [...] I take it the "angle brackets" are the < and > symbols? The > reason I ask is because screen readers often read these out as > "less" and "greater".
Yes. The terminology is a bit unfortunate – indeed, “less than” and
“greater than” are the correct names for the ASCII characters < and >,
respectively. Angle brackets are actually the symbols 〈 and 〉
(Unicode characters U+2329 and U+232A), but this is not what LilyPond
uses for its syntax.
Werner
