Re: two beginners questions

[David Kastrup]

mj <address@hidden> writes:

>>   \context { \FretBoards
>>   \override FretBoards.FretBoard.size = #0.8

You are putting a spurious FretBoards into that override.

>>   }
>>   \context {
>>     \Score
>>     \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
>>   }
>> }
>
> but there is seems to be ignored.

You should have been getting a warning/error message.  I have to admit,
however, that this does not happen.

> So perhaps my question should have been: Why would the information I
> learned from the lilypond docs work in my main file, but stop working
> when I put it in a 'global' included file?

Because it is not the same information.  In a context definition,
\override is directly followed by the respective grob name rather than a
repetition of the context name.

-- 
David Kastrup