On 25/01/11 08:07, Seth Williamson wrote:
I have turned out a few simple jobs with LilyPond, mainly simple
copying jobs just for practice and -- as a practical matter -- a few
pieces that I needed to transpose into another key.
However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by others, it's not
obvious to me (usually near the end of a document) what each closing
curly brace refers to.
Am I even SUPPOSED to be able to figure that out by looking at all the
closed curly braces, usually at different indentations on different
lines? Are you supposed to see these things and know to what they
apply in the code above? Is there a logic here that I'm missing?
I am trying to figure out the logic of why the close braces (in
particular) appear where they are and at a given indentation. So far
there's nothing intuitive about it.
Such documentation as I've been able to find at the LilyPond site and
elsewhere has been of limited utility in this regard.
Is this something you just learn by doing? Or can anybody help me out?
Good programming text editors will match braces for you. Position the
cursor on an opening or closing brace and the editor will highlight the
corresponding closing or opening brace. I like jEdit, which does this,
is available on any platform that supports Java, and has a
Lilypond-specific plugin (Lilypondtool).
Nick
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