Re: \paper within \score

[Graham Percival]

On 8-Jun-06, at 5:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:

> Hi, Graham:
>
> > (I'm still not clear on \paper vs. \layout, since you _can_ have 
> > \layout outside of a \score )
>
> Although this may confuse you more, the way I think of it is in Adobe 
> terms:

I don't use Adobe, so this analogy doesn't do anything (neither helps 
or confuses :) .

Outside a score, \paper does stuff like margins, and \layout does 
things like \context.  Except that \layout can also set the indent.  
Inside a score, \layout still does things like \context, but it also 
does margins.

There has been some discussion about rearranging these -- probably by 
eliminating the \layout word.  We can do somthing like \context{} to 
specify those things (inside or outside a score), and we could do 
\paper inside or outside a score.  I'm waiting for Erik's work to be 
finished before raising this issue again... and potentially also 
waiting until 2.10 is released and we're working on 3.0 (ie breaking 
backwards compatibility).
- Graham