Re: indent-ly

[David Kastrup]

Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
>
>> The default for lilypond files is two-space indents.
>
> Is that official and written in the docs, or just common practice ?
> Lilypond itself does not write lilypond files, it just reads them. So
> it does not have a default indentation.

Incorrect.  Try

{ \displayLilyMusic { << a b \\ <c d> | d e | >> } }

which will produce

{ << a b \\ < c d > |
     d e |
     >> }

That _is_ an idea of indentation and line breaking written by Lilypond
itself.

-- 
David Kastrup