Hi Jerome,
The most relevant part of the manuals for your question is probably here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/changing-context-default-settings
It should answer all of your questions (and there is even an example of how
to store a \with block in a variable.
hth,
Kevin
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Jérôme Plût <plut.jer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw in the documentation how to change the size of a single staff
> (such as the solist part in a piano accompaniment score) with the
> \with command. However, since I might need to do this for several
> scores, I would like to factor out the \with snippet in a macro.
>
> My question is therefore: is there a simple way to write a macro such
> that
> \new Staff \mymacro << ... >>
> (or \new Staff << \mymacro ... >>)
> would be equivalent to
> \new Staff \with { [some properties set] }
>
> ? (I know about magnifyStaff in 2.19, but I only have 2.18 here).
>
> Also two, maybe-related, questions:
> - what does the \with block do precisely? The index link for
> \with sends to
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-context-plug_002dins#index-_005cwith-1
> ,
> which gives a few examples, but not the definition, of \with.
>
> - as I understand it, changing only fontSize and
> StaffSymbol.staff-space only reduces a single staff, but not the
> inter-staff symbol. I may access this via the StaffGrouper object,
> but what if the piano accompanies two instruments ? Say:
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff \oboe
> \new Staff \clarinet
> \new PianoStaff << \new Staff \righthand \new Staff \lefthand >>
> >>
>
> Here, I would want to reduce the space between \oboe and \clarinet,
> but not between \righthand and \lefthand.
>
>
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