Re: review new info on file layout

[Graham Percival]

On 31-Jan-06, at 12:55 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> BTW, is the meaning of the word 'indent' well-known among 
> non-programmers? In

Excellent point!  I think I'll reformat the whole chapter 4 with this 
distinction (programmers vs. non-programmers) in mind.

> - The outer braces should be << >> (using {} generates incorrect 
> output)

Thanks, fixed.

> - The following is a bit misleading:
>       \context Staff = singer <<
>         \context Voice = vocal { \melody }
>         \lyricsto vocal \new Lyrics { \text }
> > >
> The lyrics context is not part of the Staff context,

Really?  That's a pity; it would help to keep things simple.  Anyway, 
thanks!  I didn't know that.

> The correct way would be:
>
>       \context Staff = singer <<
>         \context Voice = vocal { \melody }
> > >
>       \new Lyrics \lyricsto vocal { \text }

Thanks, fixed in CVS.

> (I think there's a minor pedagogical point in saying \new Lyrics before
> \lyricsto, since the \new Lyrics really isn't a relevant argument of 
> the
> music function, and because all other contexts start with context 
> names)
>
> You could of course use \addlyrics instead.

I still haven't used lyrics -- what do you recommend?  We should 
probably use the same thing here as we do in the Example templates... 
what should those ones be?

Cheers,
- Graham