Re: Automatically change staff instrument name

[David Wright]

On Tue 10 May 2016 at 13:21:36 (+0200), Davide Liessi wrote:
> In the following code, the two short instrument names "A" and "B" of
> the second system are put one on top of the other (as I expected).
> I can solve the collision manually, e.g. with something similar to the
> three commented lines.
> 
> Is there a way to automatically change the short instrument names (or
> any other property) based on the visible staves?

I expect you need the schemers. Funnily enough, this works:

\new StaffGroup \with {
  shortInstrumentName = "A     "
  \RemoveEmptyStaves
} <<
  \new Staff { c'1 \break R1 \break c'1 }
  \new Staff \with { shortInstrumentName = "(B)" } {
    c'1 c'1 c'1
  }
>>

Cheers,
David.