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2.5.6 How to read the manual

As we saw in How to read the tutorial, many examples in the tutorial omitted a \relative c'' { ... } around the printed example.

In the rest of the manual, we are much more lax about the printed examples: sometimes they may have omitted a \relative c'' { ... }, but other times a different initial pitch may be used (such as c' or c,,), and in some cases the whole example is in absolute note mode! However, ambiguities like this only exist where the pitches are not important. In any example where the pitch matters, we have explicitly stated \relative or absolute-mode { }.

If you are still confused about the exact LilyPond input that was used in an example, read the HTML version (if you are not already doing so) and click on the picture of the music. This will display the exact input that LilyPond used to generate this manual.


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