Hi Alasdair,
See also:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/defining-new-contexts.html
Cheers,
Pierre
Le ven. 15 juil. 2022 à 16:22, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> a écrit :
> Hi Alasdair,
>
> > Here a new staff is instantiated; with about 10 lines of "\with" to
> > change its appearance and behaviour.
> >
> > However, if I wish to use several such staves, I don't want to be
> > copying the "\with" material into each one. Is it possible to create
> > a new context just from such a definition? What I mean is something like
> >
> > myStaff = staff \with {
> > < lots of lines of definition >
> > }
> >
> > so that I can simply create a new staff the way I want it with, for
> > example
> >
> > \new myStaff {
> >
> > }
> >
> > All I want is an example. There is some information about defining a
> > new context, but in my case all I want is a tweaked version of a
> > current context.
>
> This is easier than one might think, but - somewhat counterintuitively -
> you need _two_ instances of the word \with.
>
> \version "2.23.7"
>
> rainbowSettings = \with {
> \override Clef.color = #red
> \override TimeSignature.color = #green
> \override StaffSymbol.color = #blue
> clefGlyph = "clefs.C"
> }
>
> \new Staff \with \rainbowSettings {
> \key d \major
> d'4
> }
>
> \new Staff \with {
> \rainbowSettings
> \magnifyStaff 2
> } {
> \key d \major
> d'4
> }
>
> And I just found out that you can even do
>
> rainbowSettings = {
> \override Clef.color = #red
> \override TimeSignature.color = #green
> \override StaffSymbol.color = #blue
> \set clefGlyph = "clefs.C"
> }
>
> (To wit, if rainbowSettings are entered as music instead of as a \with
> clause, context properties have to be set with \set.)
>
> Lukas
>
>
>
