Re: staff to end of socre

[Damian leGassick]

On 14 Dec 2011, at 19:04, David Nalesnik wrote:

Hi Damian,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Damian leGassick <address@hidden> wrote:

On 14 Dec 2011, at 18:22, Damian leGassick wrote:

> Hi all
>
> In this example the second staff is left hanging
>
> <<
> \new Staff {b b b b}
> \new Staff {b b}
>>>
>
> Can I force all staves to go to the end of the file without adding rests or spacers?

I'm not clear exactly what you want.  Do you want the staff with only two notes to continue for the same length as the other staff, minus the barline at the end? If so, an easy solution would in fact be to use spacer rests and hide one of the barlines:

<<

  \new Staff {

    b b s2

    \once \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t

  }

  \new Staff {b4 b b b}

>>

If you want both lines to stretch the full width of the page without spacers, you could do something like this:

\paper {

  ragged-right = ##f

}

#(define (to-end-of-line grob)

    (ly:output-def-lookup (ly:grob-layout grob) 'line-width))

  

<<

  \new Staff {

    \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'width = #to-end-of-line 

    b4 b b b

    b b

  }

  \new Staff {

    \repeat unfold 7 {b b b b}

  }

>>

HTH,

David

Hi David

thanks for the quick reply

the to-end-of-line function is half way there, but if I modify your example to \repeat unfold 17 there is only one staff after the line break

what I'd like is for both staves to remain until the end of the score.

I know that in a simple example it's just as easy to add spacers but I've got a number of complex musicological examples where the trial and error involved in determining exactly what spacer values to use is proving very time consuming

thanks

Damian