Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

[Simon Albrecht]

On 04.04.2016 22:19, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
> The docs do make considerable effort to explain, e.g.,
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/contexts-and-engravers
>   .
> If at all, I might criticize this for being in the wrong order:
> 2. Common Notation, 3. Fundamental Concepts - but how can we
> use or learn a language (syntax, notation) without knowing
> its underlying semantical model first?

That is because many people who get a go at LilyPond (such as me) are 
not programmers, but musicians with little background knowledge about or 
experience with programming.
It seems that a majority of LilyPond users are either music 
professionals with a knack for logics and programming, or (active or 
retired) programmers who are hobby musicians. It’s hard to satisfy both 
at once.

Yours, Simon