On 2/10/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do we have \context and \new ? I know that \context lets you name
> a context and \new doesn't... but is that the only difference? ...
> actually, you can use \context to do fancy stuff with already-existing
> contexts, right?
>
> Could we change \new so that it can also name a new context? I'm
> looking at the vocal templates, having:
> \score {
> \new Staff { \violinmelody }
> \context Staff =singer {
> \context Voice = vocal { \blah }
> \new PianoStaff {...}
> }
>
> The alternating \new and \context seems confusing. It would be nice if
> we could do
> \new Staff { \violinmelody }
> \new Staff = singer {
> \new Voice = vocal { \blah }
> \new PianoStaff {...}
Ah ... you know, I remember being surprisingly confused by just this
point way back when I was first studying the templates, but had since
forgotten the point.
Certainly would be cleaner, if there's a reasonable implementation path.
--
Trevor Bača
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