Ok I finally got it the shortcut {} was making me crazy. So a first rule is every lilypond file must have a score block. Its correlary is that it can be written out or in a shortcut.
Great. Now I will go back to the other thread for other questions so as not to confuse me and anyone else. Thanks Aaron --- Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4-Jun-05, at 1:07 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: > > > I am still trying to figure out if there are > required > > elements in a lilypond file > > You need a score. It can be explicit, > \score{ > blah blah > } > or you can use a shortcut > { > c'4 > blah blah > } > which adds the \score{} part automatically. > > > and if they must occur in > > a certain place or not. > > It doesn't matter where they go, but if you use > identifiers > cellomusic= { blah blah } > then the identifiers have to be defined before you > use them > \cellomusic > > - Graham > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user