Why not make a graphical illustration (or at least pseudo graphical using indents and line breaks) of the hierarchy. As input, you might find it easier to look at the file ..../ly/engraver-init.ly of your LilyPond installation, instead of browsing through the program reference.
/Mats On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Graham Percival wrote: > > On 5-Jun-05, at 4:21 AM, andrew Black wrote: > > > Something that I am beginning to understand better is how the various > > contexts fit together.- for example "Staff can contain Voice", > > I can only find this sort of information at a fairly deep level in the > > manual - lilypond-internals/Staff.htm > > > > I would like to have a go at trying to write my understanding down and > > post here for comment - with a view to including in the docs if it is > > considered useful - I note Graham's request for help. > > > > Just checking this sort of thing doesn't exist in the manual at the > > moment. > > It only exists in the internals (which you noted). The only possible > downside of > a doc page about this is that if the context relationships change at > some point > in the future, the doc would become out of date (whereas the internals > would > change to reflect it, since they're automatically generated). > > That said, I don't think that the context relationships will change > much. If they > do, the doc page can be updated easily. So please write such a page! > I imagine > that it would become section 9.1.7 (at the end of the Intreptation > contexts section). > > Cheers, > - Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
