RE: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

[Nick Payne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2009 6:49 PM
> To: Nick Payne; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace
> 
> There is advice in Learning Manual 2.1.3 to surround
> braces with whitespace:
> 
> "The braces should be surrounded by a space unless
> they are at the beginning or end of a line to avoid
> ambiguities."
> 
> However, I've just added a further paragraph to that
> section to emphasise that whitespace can always be
> added, but not eliminated, especially round braces.

The code examples in the documentation are not consistent in this respect.
For example, in the section in the NR on simultaneous expressions
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Single-voice#Simu
ltaneous-expressions), every code sample has both the left and right braces
tight up against the notes they surround.

Nick