Re: review new info on file layout

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> On 4-Feb-06, at 1:59 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Quoting Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:
> > > Then I'd propose this instead:
> > > \new Lyrics { \lyricsto mytune { ... } }
> > > because it feels relevant to me to consequently create contexts as 
> > > top-level
> > > as possible. (hm.. the outer {} in my example are still confusing though,
> > > since lyricsto never can be part of anything sequential)
>
> I agree with Erik -- now the highest view of the music expression is
> {
>   \new Staff { vocal }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto vocalstaff { \lyrics }
>   \new PianoStaff
> }
>
> correct?  And I should change the vocal templates to match this?

Fine with me!
> ...

> > > I think the shorthand without score is highly relevant:
> > > - Lots of music is just short snippets. See e.g. regression tests, 
> > > LSR and bug archive.
> >
> > That's only true for the small group of people like you and me who
> > spend more time answering mailing list questions and handling bug
> > reports than on typesetting any real music. It's clearly a suboptimization
> > to adapt the syntax too much to such unnormal use of the program.
>
> Yes, but it also applies to the manual.  We already explain that 
> examples from the manual need {} or even \relative c' { }   to 
> compile.

Exactly! One of the most common newbie complaints about the manual is 
that the examples don't show all the details you need in a real score.


   /Mats