Re: Is \paper{} needed?

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you neither have a \midi or a \paper, LilyPond will
assume that you just want paper output. However, as soon
as you have a \midi block, LilyPond will only output MIDI
unless you also have a \paper block.

   /Mats

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> The manual says that \paper{} is required and several examples have an
> empty \paper{}, but this doesn't seem (from experience) to be true in
> 2.1.25 any more. Is this the manual being out of date, or LilyPond being
> over-lenient?

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