Re: Rationale for LaTeX lilypond-book syntax?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> the "LaTeX" syntax for lilypond-book happens to be something like
>
> \begin[verbatim,fragment]{lilypond}
>   \relative c' { c << { d e } { b c } >> <c es g> }
> \end{lilypond}
>
> Unfortunately, this is quite annoying since actual optional
> arguments for environments come _after_ the environment name in
> LaTeX, like
>
> \begin{lilypond}[verbatim,fragment]
>   \relative c' { c << { d e } { b c } >> <c es g> }
> \end{lilypond}
>
> Would it be feasible to obsolete the first syntax and support (and
> recommend) the second syntax?

I don't see any reason not to do that.  We even don't have to change
the name of the environment.  Just allow both

  \begin{lilypond}[...]

and

  \begin[...]{lilypond}

It should be straightforward to extend lilypond-book's regexp to make
this work.


    Werner