Re: Implicit nonsense

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:13 PM

> Any suggestion of how to do the documentation part of issue 2263
> differently?  That \new Voice sticks out like a wart.
>
> From Documentation/notation/simultaneous.itely (as proposed):
>
> Since nested instances of @code{\relative} don't affect one another,
> another @code{\relative} inside of @code{\chordRepeats} can be used for
> establishing the octave relations before expanding the repeat chords.
> In that case, the whole content of the inner @code{\relative} does not
> affect the outer one; hence the different octave entry of the final note
> in this example.
>
> @c Without \new Voice, implicit voice creation does the dumbest thing.
> @lilypond[verbatim,quote]
> \new Voice
> \relative c'' {
>  \chordRepeats #'(articulation-event)
>  \relative c''
>  { <a-. c\prall e>1\sfz c'4 q2 r8 q8-. } |
>  q2 c |
> }
> @end lilypond

It's not unusual to have explicit contexts specified in the docs.  
See for example much of the vocal music section.  Usually,
though, we specify \new Staff, leaving the Voice context
implied, rather than the other way round.  That should work
here too, and would be more in accord with other @lilypond 
snippets in the docs.  Lose the comment, though.

Trevor