Thank you, Abraham, for the feedback. I feel comfortable now with the volta brackets as they are.
Secondly, I agree that it is overkill to to have the Voice specified for the left hand when there is only one voice. I'm fine-tuning as I go... Thanks, Ken On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:51 PM Abraham Lee <tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, Ken! > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:11 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi; >> >> I need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?". >> >> I see the section in the Notation Reference and a section in the >> Snippet Reference regarding volte multi-staff, but I'm confused when I >> already have a PianoStaff and I have a Trumpet above it. Do I use a >> GreatStaff surrounding a PianoStaff? >> >> I have attached the origin pdf, my Lilypond source and my engraving. >> >> Both pdf files have the same name, sorry about that. The larger one >> is the origin and the smaller one is my engraving. > > > Admittedly, I'm not 100% certain I understand what question you're asking > since it appears you're asking two different ones: > > 1. Do you need volta brackets above the trumpet staff and also above the top > piano staff? Definitely not. This would be less common in only a three-staff > score. If there were more, where the bracket is less visible, then... maybe, > but even with four staves in a single system, I'm not sure I'd do more than > have the volta bracket above the top-most one. > > 2. Do you need to wrap all the staves in another GrandStaff (or similar)? > Again, no. Your source file is structured fine the way it is. I think the > only thing you didn't *need* to do is explicitly say \new Voice within each > of the PianoStaff's Staff. You could just say: > > \new PianoStaff \with { ... } << > \new Staff << > { \voiceOne \rh_one } > { \voiceTwo \rh_two } > >> > \new Staff << > { \lh } % I wouldn't explicitly use \voiceOne here at all since you > don't need the forced directionality it will cause > >> > >> > > If those weren't what you're asking, then I apologize for not catching the > actual question(s). > > HTH, > Abraham