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1.4.1 Omitted material
LilyPond input must be surrounded by { } marks or a
‘\relative c'' { … }’, as we saw in
Working on input files. For the rest of this manual, most
examples will omit this. To replicate the examples, you may copy
and paste the displayed input, but you must add the
‘\relative c'' { … }’ like this:
\relative c'' {
…example goes here…
}
Why omit the braces? Most examples in this manual can be inserted
into the middle of a longer piece of music. For these examples,
it does not make sense to add
‘\relative c'' { … }’ – you should not
place a \relative inside another \relative! If we
included ‘\relative c'' { … }’ around
every example, you would not be able to copy a small documentation
example and paste it inside a longer piece of your own. Most
people want to add material to an existing piece, so we format the
manual this way.
Also, remember that every LilyPond file should have a
\version statement. Because the examples in the manuals
are snippets, not files, the \version statement is omitted.
But you should make a practice of including them in your files.
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