2008/11/4 Dany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've read Lilypond's documentation, and something has been bothering me: what > is > a \score block? I mean what does it actually do? For instance, what is the > difference between entering a \score block and writing \new Score? I haven't > found anything about it in the documentation except concerning its use within > a > markup expression.
A \score block is a top-level expression, like \book or \paper. A \score block may include its own \header or a \layout block, whereas \new Score won't allow you to do so. > Besides, it seems that this \score block is delimited with braces, but when > you > want to enter music inside, you have to put a music expression inside the > block, > with braces once again. Is this correct? \score does not automatically create contexts (whereas \new Score does) ; therefore you have to create one inside it. { c } is equivalent to \new Score { \new Staff { \new Voice { c } } } > And one more question: are commands such as \new Staff { c d e f } considered > as > single music expressions, just like \relative c' {c d e f}? Yes. Anything can be regarded as a "single" music expression (even if it contains nested sub-expressions), see the Wagner example in the docs. Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user