I feel it very counter-intuitive.
You create a simple score - get a PDF. Add a simple MIDI block - you
lose the PDF. Why?
Let's suppose the new user wants a way to create a MIDI. He looks at the
doc, and sees: To create a MIDI from a music piece of music, add a
|\midi| block to a score... He will not think that there is such a
serious side effect of creating midi output.
One good reason is if you want different versions of the score in the
PDF and
in the MIDI, for example if you want to expand all repeats in the MIDI or
if you want to workaround the limitation that the maximum number of
MIDI tracks (corresponding to Staff contexts in LilyPond) is limited.
Then, you certainly want a simple way to tell that a \score block should
only result in MIDI output.
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