RE: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Nick Payne <address@hidden>:

> The two situations that I know of that require a space are:
>
> 1. Explicit beaming closing square bracket followed by brace: eg {g8[ g g g
> g g] }
>
> 2. Closing angle bracket following a stroke finger indication: eg
> <c-\rightHandFinger #2 >
>
> It sounds as though there are more but I haven't encountered them yet...

It sounds as if you never have written any lyrics. That's the situation 
that started this thread if I'm not mistaken. In lyrics mode, you even 
need spaces around the dots when doing settings like \override Score . 
LyricText #'font-size = #5 (since a dot in lyrics normally is a 
punctuation that belongs to the preceding syllable) and you need a 
space before every closing bracket (again since a bracket also may be 
part of a syllable).

A generalization of your second item is that you need a space after 
every expression that's interpreted as a Scheme expression, i.e. that 
begins with a # sign.

  /Mats
> Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Graham
> > Percival
> > Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2009 10:01 AM
> > To: Jonathan Kulp
> > Cc: Nick Payne; address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > > Graham Percival wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:55:25AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
> > >>> Is there anywhere in the documentation that states where whitespace
> > *is*
> > >>> required?
> > >>
> > >> No, but that would be nice.  It should go somewhere in NR 3.  If
> > >> you could come up with anything -- frankly, even just a stub with
> > >> a "FIXME: find out later", that would be a good start.  :)
> > >>
> > >
> > > There's at least one place where this is mentioned, in Fretted
> > Strings
> > > "right hand fingerings," because I put a @warning about it after
> > finding
> > > out the hard way when I was rewriting that section.
> >
> > It's also mentioned in Vocal.  The issue is that we should have a
> > general section that lays out the general rules -- then it'll make
> > sense when we mention specific cases in the NR.
>
>
>
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