Re: Context creation

[Mats Bengtsson]

James E. Bailey wrote:
> Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
>
> > 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference 
> > > between
> > > \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see if 
> > > anything
> > > new happens.
> >
> > The only difference AFAIK is that \context allows you to tap into an
> > existing context:
> >
> > \new Staff = "coolStaff" " { (your music here) }
> >
> > and then later:
> >
> > \context Staff = "coolStaff" % look! the same context!
> >                                   { (your other music here) }
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Valentin
>
>
> But couldn't you do that with coolStaff = { (my music here) }
>
> \context Staff = \coolStaff
>
> ?
No, the point is that you can add contents to an existing context 
"afterwards". A classical
example is shown in the first SATB template in 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Vocal-ensembles#Vocal-ensembles
where you first create an empty Lyrics context and call in sopranos, in 
order to place it above the
staff and then fill it with its contents some lines later in the \score 
block, in order to be able to
use \lyricsto. (In this particular example, there's now an alternative 
solution using aligned contexts,
but before that property was introduced, the only possibility was to use 
\context = "alreadydefinedcontext").

Also, your code isn't syntactically correct. Did you mean
\context Staff \coolStaff ?

  /Mats

   /Mats