Re: Sometimes order is significant

[Nathan Ho]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Knute Snortum <address@hidden> wrote:

I've noticed over the months I've been using LilyPond that there are some parts of the syntax that depend on order and some that don't.  For example:

{ c'!8 }

Everything about must be in the exact order -- the note letter, the octave indicator, the force accidental, and the rhythm.  Are there others?

Everything else I can think of can be in any order.

{ c---.~([ }

And so on.  Is this worth mentioning in the documentation somewhere?  Specifically, I had to do a little experimenting to figure out where the forced accidental markers (!?) were places syntactically. 

This cheat sheet shows many note syntax elements in the correct order:

http://joramberger.de/files/lilypond_sheet_2.18_en.pdf

It seems that all the components starting with string number can be placed in any order.

Regards,
Nathan