Hello,I've been given a short item to realise in Lilypond and it includes a layout problem that I haven't been able to solve.
Basically, it is a piano piece in which, after a bit, a part for chimes is added: i.e., another staff above the piano's treble part a few bars in as in my MWE. I have tried to do this as an ossia staff in testlayoutB.ly but it produces the result testlayoutB.pdf which starts the chimes part at the beginning of the example, not where I want it to start.
Comments in my .ly refer to a semicolon being commented out and reinstated just above the piano Bass clef part. This causes the chimes and piano treble second line line to begin where I want it to, but it is placed below the bass, with a spurious clef above the bass.
What I would really like to do is to use StaffGroup as in testlayoutA.ly but this fails with a fatal error: "\new StaffGroup %Fatal error: 'spurious expression in \score'", so Lilypond rejects this kind of construction.
I have a voice & piano piece of my own which changes the number of staves in the piano part, so I'm very keen to learn how to deal with changing numbers of staves in a score.
Thanks! Archer
%testLayoutB.ly
\version "2.24.3"
\header {
title = "Test Layout"
}
transparentrest = \once \override Rest.transparent = ##t
transparentMMrest = \once \override MultiMeasureRest.transparent = ##t
\score {
\new PianoStaff
<<
% TREBLE CLEF 1st system
\new Staff = "pluschimes" {
\time 4/4
\clef treble
\repeat unfold 2 {d'2 f'2 | g'2 bes'2 | }
\break
% TREBLE CLEF 2nd system
R1 | \stopStaff s4
\once \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(0.5 . -5.0)
s2.^\markup {
\override #'(line-width . 50 )
\wordwrap {\italic{\small{A lot more more text placed in here}}}} | s1| s1 | s1 |
\startStaff
\time 3/4 \tempo 4 = 60 r2. \bar "!"
} % If this } is commented out and put just above the Bass Clef (see
% %} there, a spurious staff and ossia staff above it appears
% BELOW the second system ...
% OSSIA STAFF ABOVE PianoStaff FOR CHIMES (meant to start at 2nd system)
\new Staff = "chimes" \with {
\remove "Time_Signature_Engraver"
alignAboveContext = "pluschimes"
\context Staff
\magnifyStaff #2/3
fontSize = #-2
}
{ s4^\markup{\small {\column{\line{[Orchestral Chimes if} \line{ available (B\flat - C only)]}}}} \stopStaff s2. | \transparentMMrest R1 | \transparentMMrest R1 | \transparentMMrest R1 |
\once \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(-1.0 . -7.0)
\transparentMMrest R1^\markup {
\override #'(line-width . 20 )
\wordwrap {\italic{\small{Some text here}}}} |
\revert Score.TimeSignature.stencil
\startStaff \time 3/4 bes'2\mp bes'4 |
}
%} % semicolon reinstated here
% BASS CLEF 1st system
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\clef bass
\repeat unfold 16 {g,8[ g,]}
\break
% BASS CLEF 2nd system
\repeat unfold 16 {g,8[ g,]}
}
>>
}%testLayoutA.ly
\version "2.24.3"
\header {
title = "Test Layout"
}
transparentrest = \once \override Rest.transparent = ##t
transparentMMrest = \once \override MultiMeasureRest.transparent = ##t
\score {
\new PianoStaff
<<
% TREBLE CLEF
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\clef treble
\repeat unfold 2 {d'2 f'2 | g'2 bes'2 | }
\break
}
% BASS CLEF
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\clef bass
\repeat unfold 16 {g,8[ g,]}
\break
}
>>
\new StaffGroup %Fatal Error: 'Spurious expression in \score'
<<
% EXTRA STAFF ABOVE PianoStaff FOR CHIMES
\new Staff = "chimes" \with {
\magnifyStaff #2/3
\remove "Time_Signature_Engraver"
fontSize = #-2
}
{ s4^\markup{\small {\column{\line{[Orchestral Chimes if} \line{ available (B\flat - C only)]}}}} \stopStaff s2. | \transparentMMrest R1 | \transparentMMrest R1 | \transparentMMrest R1 |
\once \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(-1.0 . -7.0)
\transparentMMrest R1^\markup {
\override #'(line-width . 20 )
\wordwrap {\italic{\small{Some text here}}}} |
\revert Score.TimeSignature.stencil
\startStaff \time 3/4 bes'2\mp bes'4 |
}
\new PianoStaff
<<
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\clef treble
% TREBLE CLEF
R1 | \stopStaff s4
\once \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(0.5 . -5.0)
s2.^\markup {
\override #'(line-width . 50 )
\wordwrap {\italic{\small{A lot more more text placed in here}}}} | s1 | s1 | s1 |
\startStaff
\time 3/4 \tempo 4 = 60 r2. \bar "!"
}
% BASS CLEF
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\clef bass
\repeat unfold 16 {g,8[ g,]}
}
>>
>>
}
testLayoutB.pdf
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