Re: lilypond-book

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Graham Percival writes:

> Why do we need to have \lilypond{}, anyway?  I mean, what's
> wrong with
> \begin{lilypond}
> \end{lilypond}

The initial idea (now broken in lilypond-book) was for \lilypond{}
to be a friendly way to get inline notes, without parskip and whatnot.

Typing \lilypond{bes''} is a bit friendlier than
\begin[fragment]{lilypond}
bes''
\end{lilypond}
esp. within a paragraph.

> It just seems to me that maintaining \lilypond{} is more trouble than
> it's worth.

I think it just broke because of the lilypond-book rewrite, and the
decision to require [fragment] explicitly.

Jan.

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