Re: \new \Score

[Mats Bengtsson]

Don't forget that the \score{...} construct also is used to group 
\layout and
\midi declarations to a specific score, which cannot currently be done
using a \new Score construct.

  /Mats

Rune Zedeler wrote:
> Another thing that frequenty confuse new users is the \score-statement 
> and the fact that the braces  following it do not indicate sequential 
> music, so that you need to nested pairs of curly braces to include a 
> sequentil piece of music in a score block.
>
> It also confuses me, btw.
>
> I know that the \score-statement is a syntactical construct, but I 
> think it would be nice to hide this fact from the users.
> I think we could make the use of score-block much more intuitive if 
> changing the syntax to \new \Score and adding an implicit 
> sequential-statement to the score.
>
> Perhaps we could even expand the idea of having different contexts 
> using different default parsing modes. Having the body of \new 
> ChordNames automatically being parsed in chords-mode would be quite 
> nice, imo.
>
> This is probably a quite major change, though. But what do you think?
>
> -Rune
>
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