Re: Comments on Learning Manual 3 -- Fundamental concepts

[Mats Bengtsson]

Robin Bannister wrote:
> Robin Bannister wrote
> > A:   21 hits for "\context Staff"
> > B:   14 hits for "\context { \Staff"
>
> I think I get it now. It must be that "\context" is overloaded, does 
> two quite different things. Upon meeting a "\context" you must 
> categorise it as A or B.
> The uninitiated attach no particular significance to the decisive "{" 
> or, in my case, the word "block". Especially when they're still 
> chewing over \context vs.\new.
The main difference isn't even shown in the list above, namely that A: 
happens within a music expression (i.e. at places where you also can 
have ordinary note names), whereas B: only happens within a \layout{...} 
block.

    /Mats