> In addition to that, the IR is a static document that *cannot* > reflect the state of LilyPond at an arbitrary point of time while > processing an input document. Instead, it presents LilyPond in a > pristine state, before any `*.ly` files has been loaded, more or > less (including LilyPond's own startup files).
Oops! The last sentence is wrong, sorry. Here is a corrected version. Instead, it presents LilyPond in a pristine state, before any user input `*.ly` files has been loaded. Werner