Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

[Mats Bengtsson]

The difference is that \new internally generates a unique new
name to the context, thus making sure that you really get a new
context. If you use \context, then you must make up a new unique
name yourself, if you want to get a new context and not just
another invocation of some existing context.

It wouldn't make sense to let a user specify a context name
with \new, since then there is no longer any guarantee that
the context really is new, right? Also, if you want to name a
context, then you should use \context.

  /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:

> Why do we have \context and \new ?  I know that \context lets you name 
> a context and \new doesn't... but is that the only difference?  ... 
> actually, you can use \context to do fancy stuff with already-existing 
> contexts, right?
>
> Could we change \new so that it can also name a new context?  I'm 
> looking at the vocal templates, having:
> \score {
>   \new Staff { \violinmelody }
>   \context Staff =singer {
>     \context Voice = vocal { \blah }
>   \new PianoStaff {...}
> }
>
> The alternating \new and \context seems confusing.  It would be nice 
> if we could do
>   \new Staff { \violinmelody }
>   \new Staff = singer {
>     \new Voice = vocal { \blah }
>   \new PianoStaff {...}
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
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