Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 20 January 2012 10:29, Benedict Singer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set
>>> my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just
>>> want to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12 before
>>> that), it's incredible what everyone has done, so much thanks!
>>>
>> Welcome back!
>>
>>> Alternatively, do I need to play games with stopping/starting staffs and
>>> reprinting clefs/key signatures? If so, how do I make it look exactly like
>>> the start of a new system (brackets, possibly instrument names, etc)?
>>
>> This is a fairly difficult job for lilypond to do - I'm not sure if
>> there's an issue on our isuse tracker open for this, but it's worth
>> e-mailing the bug list just to check.
>>
>> A quick idea (you'd have to make it un-ugly, but the functionality is
>> there):
>
> I had considered this idea, but forgotten that you can have full score
> blocks inside markups, and that instrument names could be full markups. With
> your example, it all came back to me, and so far it works fine. I'll have to
> manually tweak the indents to get each one correct, so it's not completely
> automatic, but I think this approach should suffice, since the prefaces are
> all short and simple. For the curious who come after me, I've attached a
> rework of my previous example in the new style showing what this looks like.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
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Nancho Alvarez uses this technique (score within marked-up instrument
name) to produce incipits of renaissance choral music. They look
great! See any recent score from this page:

http://www.uma.es/victoria/partituras.html

Vaughan