LilyPond Learning Manual: 2.4.1 Omitted material

### 2.4.1 Omitted material

LilyPond input must be surrounded by `{ }` marks or ‘`relative { … }`’ (see Working on input files). For the rest of this manual, some short examples omit this. To replicate these examples, you can copy displayed input, but paste it between ‘`{`’ and ‘`}`’ in your input file.

>     {
>       …example goes here…
>     }

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.

#### LilyPond — Learning Manual v2.24.4 (stable-branch).