Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-25 Thread Jan WarchoĊ‚
2011/1/24 Seth Williamson hazelmo...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-25 Thread Phil Holmes
, 2011 9:07 PM Subject: Understanding herd of curly braces 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

Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Seth Williamson
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

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Ellis
Hi Seth, It sounds as though you've not had previous exposure to programming languages where nested braces (curly and otherwise) are common. The short answer to your question is that the braces identify which pieces of text go with which command. The indentation levels are only significant in

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:07 PM, 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

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Nick Payne
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