Re: confusion in text spanning

[Alexander Kobel]

Hugh Myers wrote:
> I think I was keeping track of individual bars that way (with braces
> that is)--- you are right, newline would work just as well and few
> characters='s less clutter.

Well, bar checks would even work better, since they are actually checked 
by LilyPond, thus the name... :-)
Use "... |" instead of "{ ... }": 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/Bars#Bar-and-bar-number-checks


Cheers,
Alexander