Re: Context creation

[Jesse Engle]

If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context,
why does the following example not do so?

\version "2.10.33"

\new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. }

\context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 }


On 6/2/08, James E. Bailey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 02.06.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
>
>>
>>
>> James E. Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
>>>
>>>> 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey <address@hidden>:
>>>>
>>>>> How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference
>>>>> between
>>>>> \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see
>>>>> if anything
>>>>> new happens.
>>>>
>>>> The only difference AFAIK is that \context allows you to tap into an
>>>> existing context:
>>>>
>>>> \new Staff = "coolStaff" " { (your music here) }
>>>>
>>>> and then later:
>>>>
>>>> \context Staff = "coolStaff" % look! the same context!
>>>>                                  { (your other music here) }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Valentin
>>>
>>>
>>> But couldn't you do that with coolStaff = { (my music here) }
>>>
>>> \context Staff = \coolStaff
>>>
>>> ?
>> No, the point is that you can add contents to an existing context
>> "afterwards". A classical
>> example is shown in the first SATB template in
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Vocal-ensembles#Vocal-ensembles
>> where you first create an empty Lyrics context and call in sopranos,
>> in order to place it above the
>> staff and then fill it with its contents some lines later in the
>> \score block, in order to be able to
>> use \lyricsto. (In this particular example, there's now an
>> alternative solution using aligned contexts,
>> but before that property was introduced, the only possibility was to
>> use \context = "alreadydefinedcontext").
>>
>> Also, your code isn't syntactically correct. Did you mean
>> \context Staff \coolStaff ?
>>
>>  /Mats
>>
>>   /Mats
>
> Wait, I think I just larned something. If I understand \context is for
> referring to a context; whereas \new is for creating the context. So,
> if I understand correctly from the manual:
> \new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
> is the same as
> \new Lyrics  \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
>
> Or did I totally miss that?
>
> Oh, and that's why it has to have a name? So it can be referred back
> to later on.
>
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