Ok Guys, I've been reading the manual, and the whole context / grob / engravers / properties things have me confused. I can handle basic tasks, and actually, got the hang of editing more complex parts, but I can't seem to understand how to tune up things. So I've been tryng to comprehend it lilypond's internal working a bit better.
So I'm going to ask, and perhaps, this could be put somewhere in the manual to help out other people who get confused by this as well. perhaps you guys will enlighten me. >From what I gathered in the Manual, there are three steps that lilypond takes in order to produce the printable score. The first one is reading the source that you typed. It separates what it reads into seperate contexts, and based on these contexts, it decides what grobs will be placed. It utilizes engravers to calculate which grobs go where, and their spacing. This spacing depends on many variables which are related to contexts, and data and grobs that are placed right? The part that really gets me confused is that the internals manual never makes it very clear what belongs to what. Also, there isn't a very clear distinction between context properties, and grob properties, nor how to change them, or where to change them. Apparently, in terms of syntax, its just all the same to the user. The reason I'm sending this email is because I need to make a measure a bit larger than lilypond was making it, but I faced 2 problems: firstly, I did not know if I had to change the grobs of the notes, or the staff context (StaffSpacing?). I figured that problem pritty fast. But then, I coulnd't figure out, within the context, which was the variable I had to change, nor which command I had to issue to change it, nor where I had to issue the command so that only that measure was changed. . . . So as you can see, i'm pritty confused. Please help me understand lilypond a bit better. Fabio.
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