Re: The behavior of a \score block

[Mark Polesky]

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> A \score block may include its own \header or a \layout block, whereas
> \new Score won't allow you to do so.
>
> \score does not automatically create contexts (whereas \new Score
> does) ; therefore you have to create one inside it.

Let me get this straight. If I wanted a score-specific header, AND if I wanted
"text marks" on every staff (as in the snippet "Printing marks on every staff":
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-text#Selected-Snippets-35
), I would have to nest a "\new Score { ... }" block (needed to reassign the 
engravers) within a "\score" block (needed to get the score-specific header)?

This is not only confusing, but seems needlessly tedious. I agree with Helge;
either we need something in the docs like "When to use \score and when to use 
\new Score", or we need some new syntactic sugar. Can "\score" be re-coded to
incorporate the auto-context-creation of "\new Score", or can "\new Score" be
re-coded to allow \header and \layout blocks? Or am I missing something...

Okay, if there's a way to code the example below without
  \score { \new Score { ... } }
please let me know.

- Mark

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\score {
  \new Score \with {
    \remove "Mark_engraver"
    \remove "Staff_collecting_engraver"
  }
  <<
    \new Staff \with {
      \consists "Mark_engraver"
      \consists "Staff_collecting_engraver"
    }
    { c''1 \mark "molto" c'' }
    \new Staff \with {
      \consists "Mark_engraver"
      \consists "Staff_collecting_engraver"
    }
    { c'1 \mark "molto" c' }
  >>
  \header {
    piece = "a Score within a \score!"
  }
}

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