Re: setting partCombine text at a higher level

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-05-11 5:44 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Can the variables? soloText and its companions soloIIText, etc. be set
> at a higher level than \new Staff so it doesn't have to be repeated
> for each staff?  (Notation Manual 1.5.2)

You can do it more globally in a \layout block if you want it to apply 
to all staves.  Otherwise, put the variable definitions in a \with block 
that can be referenced on individual staves.

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

\layout {
 \context {
  \Staff
  soloText = girl
  soloIIText = boy
  aDueText = together
 }
}

combineTexts = \with {
  soloText = cat
  soloIIText = dog
}

\new Staff <<
  \partCombine
  \relative c'' { g4 g r r a2 g }
  \relative c'' { r4 r a( b) a2 g } >>

\new Staff \with \combineTexts <<
  \partCombine
  \relative c'' { g4 g r r a2 g }
  \relative c'' { r4 r a( b) a2 g } >>
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill