On 10/24/2017 8:36 PM, James Harkins wrote:
A PianoStaff is a staff group (*container *for staves) with specific
properties: left brace, keep-alive-together. By default, it contains
*zero *staves. You may create only one staff in it, if you like.
That's different from Sibelius, e.g., which creates two staves for
piano by default.
And this is one of the big advantages to using LilyPond: concepts and
structures like this all add up to really make a huge difference in
engraving...modern scores especially I've found it's a lifesaver.
Keeping everything orderly!
I really appreciate the separation / semantic approach with how contexts
are organized *and *not limiting the user to certain "defaults" that
some programs insist you accept and deal with...
/ It's perhaps one of the confusing things in LilyPond that it
engraves only //
// the staves that you create. By convention, a piano staff has two
staves, //
// *but those staves don't exist unless you make them*. /
I think that can be confusing at first to new users as they dive deeper
into the Pond, yes but it's well worth exploring! :)
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