The difference is that \new internally generates a unique new
name to the context, thus making sure that you really get a new
context. If you use \context, then you must make up a new unique
name yourself, if you want to get a new context and not just
another invocation of some existing context.
It wouldn't make sense to let a user specify a context name
with \new, since then there is no longer any guarantee that
the context really is new, right? Also, if you want to name a
context, then you should use \context.
/Mats
Graham Percival 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 {...}
Cheers,
- Graham
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