Re: The behavior of a \score block

[Helge Kruse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden>
To: "Dany" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: The behavior of a \score block


> 2008/11/4 Dany <address@hidden>:
>  ... 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 } } }

The learning manual starts with examples like "{ a b c }" that gives you a valid score. There are a lot examples that gives you this 
easy start with lilypond.

On the other hand this does not discovers, what I am typing with "{ a b c }". I am a programmer and would like to understand why I 
get the help from the mailing list "write \new score { }" when I read somewhere in the manual "\score { }".

Your comments to this mail gives me a clue, what lilyponds does behind the scene. But I would like more documentation, that helps me 
to understand the action behind the scene. There is an internals documentaion, but this is a bit deep. I would appreciate if the 
documentation could include more details as you describe.

Regards,
Helge