Re: Two newbie questions

[Graham Percival]

Palmer, Ralph wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response, and sorry - by "embedded space", I meant
> blank space, usually inserted by hitting the space bar on the keyboard
> (Character code 0020 in Microsoft Word, possibly the same as Unicode
> u8195, aka "em space"), but a tab does the same thing. Is that clear? If
> I input 
> cis'(
> it's clearly interpreted differently from
> cis '(
> but 
> cis'( cis')
> is interpreted the same as
> cis'(          cis')
> or even
> cis'(
> cis')

Please keep lilypond emails on the mailist, since other people may 
benefit from the answers.

Lilypond is generally whitespace-insensitive (the programmer name for 
"embedded space" is whitespace), but as you've noticed the octave mark 
', needs to be next to the note name.  There isn't any authoritative 
documentation about this, however.

Cheers,
- Graham