Re: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought?

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Petr Pařízek" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:09 PM
Subject: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level 
more than I thought?


> Hello,
>
> I'm currently learning to use LilyPond. I've finally succeeded in writing 
> a short piece of music but there's one thing I don't understand. In my 
> source code, there was one line that said "\score {". In order it worked 
> at all, I had to keep a single left brace { on the immediately following 
> line, which meant that I later had to use a single right brace } on two 
> consecutive lines.

I don't see a right brace on two consecutive lines?

> To me, this seems like an additional level of nesting which I didn't think 
> was necessary. So I wanted to know why it has to be there or why the 
> compiling process fails if I don't keep that.
>
> To be more specific, I'll quote a shortened version of my code to give you 
> a better idea of what I'm talking about.


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Phil Holmes