Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Thanks Reinhold and Han-Wen
>
> I've (partially!) digested the parser and my final conclusion is the 
> following:
>
> When adding articulations to notes the direction indicator,
> @code{^}, @code{_} or @code{-}, can usually be omitted, in which
> case @code{-} is assumed.  But a direction indicator is
> @strong{always} required before
>
> @itemize
> @item @code{\tweak} commands
> @item @code{\markup} commands
> @item @code{\tag} commands
> @item string markups, e.g. -"string"
"string markups" isn't really an established term (unless you have 
coined it recently in the
documentation updates). I guess that in LilyPond terminology it would be 
a "text script specified
as a string" or something similar. I'm not what makes most sense to an 
average reader of the manual,
though.

   /Mats