Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

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On 08/05/16 21:30, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 08 May 2016 at 19:06:27 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote:
>> Basically, I want to do pretty much what "instrument name" does in a
>> score - I want to put the name of the section in front of the start
>> of the staff. The problem is, as always, when you use a feature for
>> what it's not intended for, you can get unexpected side effects.
>> I've got four sections, so that'll mean four \score's. Will I get
>> unexpected (read - unwanted) headers between the scores? Basically,
>> if you don't notice the section name, you shouldn't realise that the
>> music doesn't just flow on.
> 
> I don't foresee any issues. Have you not tried it?

I have memories of the header code sticking stuff at the start of a
score part ... things like the section name :-) ... exactly what I don't
want to happen. I haven't tried that approach just yet, as it's majorly
different from my normal style of doing things.
> 
>> My other approach to doing this sort of thing is "\stopStaff
>> \cadenzaOn ... \cadenzaOff \startStaff" but will this suppress
>> things like key signature etc at the start of the line? My initial
>> experiments in that respect haven't worked, although it seems
>> obvious to me why. But I don't want to carry on down that route if
>> it's going to turn into a rabbit's warren of tweaks and fixes to get
>> right.
> 
> Without an example of whay you've done, I wouldn't like to comment.
> It seems more complicated.

I use it to put text in the middle of a piece usually - some scores
break the part and put the word "Coda" in the middle, or in my most
recent case, "extended cadenza". I just expect if I try it at the start
of a piece, it's likely to collide with a lot of the stuff lilypond
"just does" for you.
> 
>> How do other people deal with section names? Especially, how do you
>> do it like the score I'm copying - at the start of the line ...
> 
> I don't know what the score you're copying looks like. I think we've
> been here before...
> 
I'm not a visual person - I tend to describe things as text ... I was
hoping someone who's done something similar would chime in - I would
expect them to recognise the description if they have. I don't like
repurposing stuff meant to be used otherwise - lily normally expects the
section name to be *above* the score part, as part of the header, iirc.
And the instrument name normally doesn't change several times per part
... :-) so if I put the section name in the instrument variable I'm not
expecting it work exactly as I would like ... and it'll probably come
with unwanted surprises.

Cheers,
Wol