Re: NR 3.6.1, Displaying LilyPond notation

[Urs Liska]

Am 04.12.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> Il giorno ven 4 dic 2015 alle 15:52, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha
> scritto:
>> Well, no, that isn't what is meant by "interpreted".
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> The music function \displayLilyMusic displays the following music
>> expression while also retaining it as part of the surrounding
>> expression.  This is convenient when inserting \displayLilyMusic into
>> existing music expressions since it does not affect their interpretation
>> when printing a rendition of them.
>>
>> Sometimes you indeed only want to print some expression without letting
>> LilyPond do anything else with it.  In that case, you can place \void
>> before \displayLilyMusic and the entire expression will be discarded
>> after displaying it.
>
> Much better, now I think I got it.
>
> The meaning of "displaying" here should be made more clear: display in
> the console, not in the output. Some redundancy may help with avoiding
> any misunderstanding:
>
> The music function \displayLilyMusic displays the following music
> expression _in the console_ while...

One thing that might benefit from some more disambiguation is:
\displayLilyMusic displays the music expression in (re-generated)
LilyPond input syntax, regardless of whether it is fed  {a b c} or
\musicFunctionThatReturnsASymphony, while \displayMusic displays the
textual representation of a Scheme function.

Urs

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