Re: Still confused about context vs. new

[James E. Bailey]

Am 17.07.2008 um 22:35 schrieb Patrick Horgan:

> I see many examples with \context, or \new used in the same place.   
> I've read LM 3.1.1 for example which tells me that if I don't create  
> explicitly a \new Staff or \new Voice, they will be created  
> automatically, and goes on to refer to that as the implicit creation  
> of contexts.  I often see examples that refer to contexts, via  
> something like \context ChoirStaff, or \context Staff, that have not  
> been explicitly created. Can I assume that they are implicitly  
> created?  Something like this recent example off the list:
> >

See this thread. 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00007.html
It took me a long time to understand it as well.