Ups sorry, the PDF was from an older test. This is the one belonging to the lily code.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM Heiko Schill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to engrave a score in which more than one instrument/voice > appears only later in the piece. I would like to not engrave multiple full > measure rests in the beginning, but at the same time would also like to > engrave the instrument/voice name at the first appearance of the > corresponding staff, much like > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2025-12/msg00116.html > ("Print instrument name of staff whose empty section from the start was > removed with RemoveAllEmptyStave"). > > I had been using the same approach using \pseudoIndent from > https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Indenting_individual_systems before > with no issues with only one instrument making a late appearance. However I > am facing issues now with more than one occurrence of \pseudoÍndent. > > In the attached minimum (?) working example, engraving the instruments in > the desired order produces no indentation and no instrument names for all > but the last occasion of \pseudoIndent. While the example file shows only > two delayed voices, this can be extended to three or four delayed ones, > where also only the last occurrence of \pseudoindent is engraved correctly > and the others all behave like the cello case in the example. > > The ouput is completely as expected for all occurrences of \pseudoIndent > if either the order of the staves is reversed or the \RemoveAllEmptyStaves > is omitted (which both defeats the purpose of the score), the MWE shows > both of these cases, as well. I tried both lilypond 2.24.4 and 2.25.31 with > identical results. > > Is there a way to get the desired output somehow? > > Thanks and best regards, > Heiko > > >
pseudoIndent_mwe.pdf
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