Is \paper{} needed?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 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 Is this the manual being out of date, or LilyPond being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?

The default is to supply a \paper{} declaration if no output (paper,
midi) is specified. Perhaps this default should be changed?

Any objections?

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