Re: Bar number moves down inexplicably

[Noeck]

Hi Chris,

> Begs the question what the "comment" symbol means if text after it on
> the line is parsed...

It is not, there are just two kinds of comments:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/working-on-input-files

% line comment

%{
  block comment
%}

In the mail above: '% { ...' is a line comment and '%{ ...' is a block
comment. This is a neat trick for quickly (un-)commenting blocks.

More verbose:
State a)
%{  this is commented
    this too, next line ends the comment block
%}

State b)
% { this is a line comment
    this is not commented, next line has no effect
%}


Cheers,
Joram