> I think we use "should be" and "must" fairly > interchangeably. As a techwriter/user this confuses me. should be is a much weaker expression, like it doesn't have to but if you want.. must says that it is a requirement to have on of these.
> > then it says: > > "A .ly file contains any number of toplevel > > expressions, where a toplevel expression is one of > the > > following" > > > > well this is vague. because if some top level > elements > > are left out the file won't parse while if others > are > > left out it will. > > Well... but only _requirement_ is that there's some > music in You mean to say that if I write a lilypond file with a header and a'4 it will parse? I am trying here to clarify what the intent of the documentation is here, not be picky per se. A user doesn't want to know what he may or should do, but what he needs to get this up and running. What I mean is beating around the bush doesn't help. If this is a page detailing lilypond file structure it should do that specifically not with shoulds and mights. If there are different possiblilies they need to be laid out. I in fact recall that for structure there was never a one stop shop (on page) that in a straight forward manner detailed what is the structure (in detail) of a lilypond file. I infact thought for years that the [that = this] format of almost all lilypond files I saw on the mailing list and the site was a requirement of Lilypond, as opposed to a feature. > the file. And even then I'm not certain that > lilypond will give > a parse error. > > If a file won't parse, then something else is wrong. > > the example given doesn't use a \score {} block, > so I > > must assume that lilypond no longer requires a > score > > block? > > Correct. > > > I see a layout block has this replaced the > \paper{} ? > > Kind-of. See the "Paper output" section in "Output > formats". > > > I am in the mean time still trying to make a > layout > > with no includes and lyrics. > > In addition to reading the manual, you might want to > look at > some examples from Mutopia or LSR. > > - Graham > > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user