Re: Question on syntax

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:29:37AM +0100, andrew Black wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> >    ...
> >    \context{
> >      \Lyrics
> >      \override LyricText #'font-size = #2
> 
> I am finding certain aspects of Lilypond's syntax a little cryptic. 
> Specifically
>  - what is the difference between
>       \context Lyrics=xxxx
>       \context { \Lyrics  ....... }
> 
>  - what is the reasoning behind the # and ' in the phrase #'font-size
...

The answer to the second question has to do with the syntax for the
underlying language (Scheme) used with lilypond.

See Appendix B of the User's Manual.


Kenward
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