Minor changes to phrasing suggested. I don't think this needs an example; seems pretty clear to me. So LGTM. https://codereview.appspot.com/8474044/diff/1/Documentation/notation/changing... File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): https://codereview.appspot.com/8474044/diff/1/Documentation/notation/changing... Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:1328: context is created until getting to a context without a ... an event is encountered, further subcontexts are created recursively, each of type given by the respective value of @samp{defaultchild}, until a context with no @samp{defaultchild} setting is reached. https://codereview.appspot.com/8474044/diff/1/Documentation/notation/changing... Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:1332: staves or scores. Using @code{\new} for explicitly creating ... @code{new} to create contexts explicitly avoids ...
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LGTM Trevor
LGTM