Re: Is there a better way of assigning an instrument name to Voice?

[caagr98]

Yeah, I don't think Voice supports instrumentName; my bad. I'd recommend 
replacing the \new Voice with a \new Staff. Aside from working properly 
with certain \with properties, I personally think it makes more sense. 
It's certainly more consistent with the piano staff, at least.

I would also recommend using \new for creating new contexts, and only 
use \context for referring to existing ones. You can use \with 
{instrumentName} on the PianoStaff as well, by the way.

Oh, and please reply to the list as well. In Thunderbird, it's [Reply 
List] instead of [Reply]; it's probably something similar in other clients.

On 04/04/17 19:27, Mike Dean wrote:
> Stumbled across it:
>
> <<
>     \context Staff = "mel" { \melody }
>     <<
>       \set Staff.instrumentName = "Melody" >>
>      \context PianoStaff <<
>     \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Piano  "
>     \new Staff = "upper" \upper
>     \new Staff = "lower" \lower
>   >>
> > >
>
>
> Mike Dean
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Mike Dean <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:00 PM, <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>         \with { instrumentName = "Melody" }
>
>
>     Thanks..
>     However, I did not succeed in getting the name to print:
>
>     Inline image 1
>
>     I was looking at the Staff headword snippet [0.02458] for an idea,
>     but I am not understanding it correctly...Would I need to put things
>     in a \context Staff command:
>
>     <<
>         \context Staff = "melody" <<
>           \set Staff.instrumentName = "Melody" >>
>          \context PianoStaff <<
>         \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Piano  "
>         \new Staff = "upper" \upper
>         \new Staff = "lower" \lower
>       >>
>
>
>     Mike Dean