Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

[Jan Warchoł]

2011/1/24 Seth Williamson <address@hidden>:
> However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by others, it's not obvious to
> me (usually near the end of a document) what each closing curly brace refers
> to.
> Am I even SUPPOSED to be able to figure that out by looking at all the
> closed curly braces, usually at different indentations on different lines?
>  Are you supposed to see these things and know to what they apply in the
> code above?  Is there a logic here that I'm missing?
> I am trying to figure out the logic of why the close braces (in particular)
> appear where they are and at a given indentation.  So far there's nothing
> intuitive about it.

Just like other people, i recommend to use a brace-highlightning editor.
But there is one more answer to your question: unfortunately sometimes
people write code badly :(

good luck!
Janek