Re: Creating cut-away or scrapbook scores in LilyPond

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:31 PM, N. Andrew Walsh [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

PS- reading that blog made my head hurt. Is working with Sibelius always this nightmarishly clunky and dysfunctional?

Just for the record, I couldn't agree more :-)

 

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:24 PM, N. Andrew Walsh <[hidden email]> wrote:

I would think it might be preferable to follow what I take to be the more standard practice for cutaway scores, in which all staves appear at the beginning of the first system, with whatever other establishing marks (clef, key, instrument name, tempo, time signature, etc) are necessary, and then blanking out the measures until their music appears. Using the first example from Sibelius's blog on this topic (as you can see from their blog post here: http://www.sibeliusblog.com/tutorials/learning-more-advanced-cut-away-score-techniques/ ) seems like it might immediately raise some hackles (not the least of which simply because it's Sibelius, but also because it seems like terrible notational practice). 

That would probably also be easier than moving the brackets and everything to the first instance of notes, no?

Then it just becomes a much easier matter of whiting out any staves that don't have notes in them.

Agreed. Personally, I don't like the idea of starting a instrument mid-score like the tutorials demonstrate. I was just curious if it was possible. My logic is this: if there's a tutorial on it, *someone* must be using it, whether they *should* or not, and if I was asked to do it, I'd feel better knowing that I can.

- Abraham

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