Alasdair McAndrew <amc...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> There are examples of changing a staff context in the manual, for example at
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-creating-custom-key-signatures
>
> 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.
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\name "myStaff"
< lots of lines of definition >
}
\inherit-acceptability myStaff Staff
}
--
David Kastrup
