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 1.4.1 Omitted material
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 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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