Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-22 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hello, I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed in front of the whole group, vertically centered and

Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hello, I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed in front of the whole group, vertically centered and

Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/9/21 Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de: Hello,  I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion

Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Orm Finnendahl wrote Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:56 PM I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed

Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread -Eluze
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Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Trevor, thanks a lot, worked right away! -- Orm Am Tuesday, den 21. September 2010 um 23:02:02 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Trevor Daniels: You need to add the Instrument_name_engraver to StaffGroup, and also set shortInstrumentName. See

Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-21 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2010, um 00:21:11 schrieb -Eluze: by default, the Instrument_name_engraver does not seem to be part of the StaffGroup - so you have to add it yourself: \layout { \context { \StaffGroup \consists Instrument_name_engraver } } I don't really see a reason