Re: Staff Change Line

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-03-31 6:07 am, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
> Am 31.03.19 um 14:43 schrieb Erwinstein:
> > Forgive me for sending multiple messages but the code snippet in my 
> > previous
> > message didn't make it in the email. Sorry, I used the raw tag in the 
> > nabble
> > forum and it was stripped in the email sent to the mailing list. Sorry 
> > for
> > not knowing that will happen.
> >
> > By the way, here is the code of that measure:
> >
> > \version "2.18.2"
> >
> > \new PianoStaff <<
> >    \new Staff {
> >      \time 4/4
> >      \clef "treble"
> >      \relative c' {
> >        \key g \major
> >        << { e2~ e8 d d4 } \\ { <c g>4. c8 c4 <c g>4 } >> |
> >      }
> >    }
> >    \new Staff {
> >      \time 4/4
> >      \clef "bass"
> >      \relative c, {
> >        \key g \major
> >        << { r8 e'8 e2 } \\ { g,2. \stemUp <e' d,>4 } >> \stemNeutral |
> >      }
> >    }
>
> (There's a >> missing.)

Well, either you or your email client erroneously stripped the ">>" from 
the original email.  It did indeed contain ">>".

Unfortunately, lines beginning with one or more greater-than signs are 
used to indicate quoting [1] of previous material.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting

In my mail client, for instance, the email appears to be quoting a quote 
of an empty line.  (This is technically what ">>" as a complete line 
would mean.)  And if I were to copy-and-paste, I do not get the ">>" as 
part of the text.  It is an annoyance that I always have to manually 
correct for.

I have found that my mail client does seem to ignore quote characters if 
there are any spaces before.  In general, I try to avoid putting ">>" on 
its own line but, if unavoidable, I indent it with some extra spaces.


-- Aaron Hill