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Re: How contexts fit together - doc suggestion
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Mats Bengtsson |
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Re: How contexts fit together - doc suggestion |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:52:35 +0200 (CEST) |
Why not make a graphical illustration (or at least pseudo graphical
using indents and line breaks) of the hierarchy.
As input, you might find it easier to look at the file
..../ly/engraver-init.ly of your LilyPond installation, instead
of browsing through the program reference.
/Mats
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> On 5-Jun-05, at 4:21 AM, andrew Black wrote:
>
> > Something that I am beginning to understand better is how the various
> > contexts fit together.- for example "Staff can contain Voice",
> > I can only find this sort of information at a fairly deep level in the
> > manual - lilypond-internals/Staff.htm
> >
> > I would like to have a go at trying to write my understanding down and
> > post here for comment - with a view to including in the docs if it is
> > considered useful - I note Graham's request for help.
> >
> > Just checking this sort of thing doesn't exist in the manual at the
> > moment.
>
> It only exists in the internals (which you noted). The only possible
> downside of
> a doc page about this is that if the context relationships change at
> some point
> in the future, the doc would become out of date (whereas the internals
> would
> change to reflect it, since they're automatically generated).
>
> That said, I don't think that the context relationships will change
> much. If they
> do, the doc page can be updated easily. So please write such a page!
> I imagine
> that it would become section 9.1.7 (at the end of the Intreptation
> contexts section).
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
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