> > With some trial and error I managed in the D.5.1 ancient music template to > move the SystemStartBracket (using #'extra-offset) towards the end of the > incipit so that it is placed at the beginning of the modern notation. > Attached an image. I'm sure with \startStaff and \stopStaff I can tweak > the > looks of the incipit even more to my liking.
Do you mean putting a space between incipit and real score? At first I thought that would be a good idea but later I realized that's not what most of today's editions do (if this is of any interest...) I put together some incipit examples of common editions together, just if anybody is interested: http://www.slapeta.com/files/incipit_samples.pdf > But the placing of the > SystemStartBracket is tricky, because the layout of the first system might > change, and then the bracket would print in a wrong place. > So that's some kind of hack as well :-) > Another aproach (recenly but also earlier mentioned in mailing list) would > be > embed \score inside instrumentName, but then the vertical alignment is a > bit > tricky, dependend on extent of lyrics in the incipit, etc. > Yes. The best solution so far (for this approach) is assigning the text directly to notes (via _"...") because it ties these two things together very tightly, which makes the vertical displacement of the incipit very small. For me, that's something I can live with. However, if somebody wants to produce a professional score... > Isn't there a more direct way to get a systemstart in the middle of a > score? > Using some \systemStart or \restart command? (Many years I used mup, which > has a restart command to do just that.) Clefs/Time/Key signatures could > then > also automatically be printed again without having to force fullsize clef > changes etc. I'm already trying to add this option myself (delving into > scm/ > and lily/) but could use some help/hints .... :) A \restart command would be ok if it really fulfils all the intentions that need a hack at the moment: - Incipits normally have a different clef, notation, time signature and (very important!!) a much tighter spacing than the real score - Ambitus, system start delimiter + bracket, bar counting and maybe some other things must be available for the modern score and suppressed for the incipit. And there is one more annoying issue: at the moment, every incipit staff must have the same duration so that you have to insert useless skip sequences for padding of shorter durations. This is firstly very time-consuming and secondly hard to understand for somebody who is new to this tool. Thus, an even better solution would be to have an own \incipit { ... } syntax that does everything automatically: using clef/time signature/notation/... provided there and closing/aligning all the incipit staffs over different voices. And it should let away such things like ambitus etc. Maybe this could also be handled in a more generic way, just ideas... Thoughts? Stefan _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
