>> Common? I don't think so. Rather the contrary: AFAIK, it's >> extremely rare that you have to change the indentation of a staff >> in the middle of a piece! I can't remember having seen such a >> thing in any of the standard music scores. > > Well, of course, it’s quite common in modern scores.
Hmm. > One [beautiful!] example that immediately came to mind is > Schwantner’s “Sparrows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqBkFWCkaTk I don't see any non-standard indentation. The left and right margin is fixed in the whole score. However, there are staves that start later and end earlier. IMHO, this is *not* indentation in any way. Indentation is a fixed value outside of the music; it would normally be set up in a `\paper` block. On the other hand, delayed printing of staves depend on the music. For example, if I inserted a quarter, the start of the staff would move to the right. Werner
