Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

[David Kastrup]

Bernard <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04-04-16 16:51, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> On 04.04.2016 12:46, Bernard wrote:
>>> I have attached some more real live code using /with and and
>>> example I tried to skip the /with section and assign properties
>>> directly, which fails.
>>
>> instrumentName, drumStyleTable &c. are context properties. Inside
>> music, these are set with the \set command, e.g.
>> \set DrumStaff.instrumentName = "foo"
>> Note that a string doesn’t need the # before.
>>
>> HTH, Simon
>>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks, I could do set the properties.
> But when the voice is called I get a Error : unexpected MUSIC_IDENTIFIER
>
> when using "\with" I did not get this error.
>
> \score {
> \new DrumStaff {
> \override DrumStaff.StaffSymbol.line-count = #3
> \set DrumStaff.instrumentName = "Djembe 2"
> \set DrumStaff.drumStyleTable = #(alist->hash-table djembe)
> }
> \djEen
> }
>
> I think I am getting quite close now. Thanks,

I have no idea what you think you are doing but I have severe doubts
that you are getting close to anything useful.  It looks to me like you
are just randomly putting syntactic entities into a bag and shake.

Have you read through the Learning Manual?  It should tell you how
LilyPond organizes its input.

At any rate, \new DrumStaff is optionally followed by a context
modification before the single music expression it typesets in the
DrumStaff context.  In the above case, that music expression is {
\override ... djembe) }, so \djEen has nothing whatsoever to do with the
DrumStaff and is just a spurious expression in the \score.

-- 
David Kastrup