Re: Expert question on named contexts

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote
> Mats Bengtsson wrote
> > Can anybody tell me exactly what happens with the context names in the
> > following example.
> \relative c' <<
> \new Staff \new Voice = myvoice { c d e f }
> \new Staff \context Voice = myvoice { g f e d }
> > >
>
> > Is the Voice context in the
> > lower stave given some random unknown name?
>
> I guess it is, since when you add lyrics they're aligned with the
> first instanciation of "myvoice":
>
> \relative c' <<
> \new Staff \new Voice = myvoice { c d8 e f4 g8 f }
> \new Staff \context Voice = myvoice { g8 f e d g4 f }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "myvoice" \lyricmode { one two three four five six }
> > >
>
> However, I do wonder how this context can be named internally...

My understanding is that the name given to a context is
stored internally as the context's id.  You can display this
with the ly:context-id function.  In the example above both
contexts have id set to "myvoice", as least that's what this
function returns.

I would guess that the lyrics attach to the first context
encountered which has a matching name.

> Cheers,
> Valentin

Trevor