A comment is a remark for the human reader of the music input, it is
ignored and has no effect on the printed output. There are two types
of comments. The percent symbol %
introduces a line comment;
the rest of the line is ignored. A block comments marks a whole
section of music input, anything that is enclosed in %{
and
%}
is ignored. The following fragment shows possible uses for
comments
% notes for twinkle twinkle follow c4 c g' g a a %{ This line, and the notes below are ignored, since they are in a block comment. g g f f e e d d c2 %}
There is a special statement that really is a kind of comment. The version statement marks for which version of LilyPond the file was written. To mark a file for version 2.1.17, use
\version "2.1.17"
These annotations make future upgrades of LilyPond go more
smoothly. Changes in the syntax are handled with a special program,
convert-ly (see Invoking convert-ly), and it uses
\version
to determine what rules to apply.
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