I'm not sure that the previous followups to your email has clarified
this issue completely.
The reason that your example does not do what you expected is that it is
equivalent to
\version "2.10.33"
\score{
\new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. }
}
\score{
\context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 }
}
Depending on what you want to achieve, you could either do as Kieren
proposed and
specify that the two lines of music should be consecutive or you could
say that they
should be typeset in parallel. The following somewhat extended example
illustrates the
latter case and by introducing an extra stave, I tried to pinpoint why
you may want to
connect something to an already existing stave:
\version "2.10.33"
\score{
<<
\new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. }
\new Staff = "inbetween" \relative c''{ c4 b a g f e d c }
\context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g'4 f e d c1 }
>>
}
/Mats
Jesse Engle wrote:
If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context,
why does the following example not do so?
\version "2.10.33"
\new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. }
\context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 }
On 6/2/08, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am 02.06.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
James E. Bailey wrote:
Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
2008/6/1 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference
between
\new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see
if anything
new happens.
The only difference AFAIK is that \context allows you to tap into an
existing context:
\new Staff = "coolStaff" " { (your music here) }
and then later:
\context Staff = "coolStaff" % look! the same context!
{ (your other music here) }
Cheers,
Valentin
But couldn't you do that with coolStaff = { (my music here) }
\context Staff = \coolStaff
?
No, the point is that you can add contents to an existing context
"afterwards". A classical
example is shown in the first SATB template in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Vocal-ensembles#Vocal-ensembles
where you first create an empty Lyrics context and call in sopranos,
in order to place it above the
staff and then fill it with its contents some lines later in the
\score block, in order to be able to
use \lyricsto. (In this particular example, there's now an
alternative solution using aligned contexts,
but before that property was introduced, the only possibility was to
use \context = "alreadydefinedcontext").
Also, your code isn't syntactically correct. Did you mean
\context Staff \coolStaff ?
/Mats
/Mats
Wait, I think I just larned something. If I understand \context is for
referring to a context; whereas \new is for creating the context. So,
if I understand correctly from the manual:
\new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
is the same as
\new Lyrics \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
Or did I totally miss that?
Oh, and that's why it has to have a name? So it can be referred back
to later on.
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