Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> writes: > David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> schrieb: >>Colin Tennyson <colintenny...@outlook.com> writes: >> >>> The LillyPond parser accepts this, there is no error, and the score >>_is >>> rendered correctly_. >>> But as you point out: >>> this: >>> << \addKey \staffOneNotes >> >>> is better written as: >>> { \addKey \staffOneNotes } >>> >>> >>> While the { ... } notation is better, LilyPond accepts both: { >>\addKey >>> \staffTwoNotes } and << \addKey \staffTwoNotes >>. In this case both >>are >>> rendered the same. >> >>But that's not a given. Take, for example, the output of >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >>Also, if you have something like >> >>\new StaffGroup >>{ >> << \key c\major { c' c' c' c' } >> >>} >> >>you'll likely be surprised by the results... > > Colin, your example works because you have exactly one music > expression inside the angled brackets.
\addKey \staffOneNotes are _two_ music expressions. I used exactly the same template for demonstrating things that don't work. > These let you enter multiple expressions that are interpreted in > parallel. And if there is just one expression inside it just does > nothing. But that's not what we had here. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user