Piano music is not the only place to use a GrandStaff is it? Is not a full orchestral score written on a Grand Staff? And the full score of a String Quartet is it not also a Grand Staff?
I am not 100% sure I'm right here either. I thought that GrandStaff meant more than one staves bound together because they made up a greater whole. In Lilypond I thought that PianoStaff was inside the GrandStaff hierarchy as child of the GrandStaff the way GrandStaff is of \score. As i say, I'm not sure that I'm exactly correct here, but if I am then GrandStaff still has uses aside from the far more specific case of PianoStaff. Cheers David > >> I just noticed that the staff contexts of the examples in 1.1.3.5 are > >> PianoStaff. In 1.6 there is only mentioned GrandStaff. Which one is > >> the preferred one to be used? I would mention both in 1.6, but I > >> think we should develop guidelines which context names to use. Maybe > >> the PianoStaff is (at least to others than English native speakers) > >> more understandable? So the context would be called PianoStaff in > >> 1.6.1 but I would also mention that there is a GrandStaff context? > >> So far I have understood that they are both equal. Is this true? > >> > > In version 2.11, the only difference between the two is that > > PianoStaff contains the instrument name engraver. In version 2.10 > > and earlier, there were more differences. The PianoStaff then produced > > a fixed distance between the staves, since the cross-staff > > slurs and beams didn't work otherwise. This limitation has been fixed > > in 2.11. > Ok, good to know. So PianoStaff should maybe be the default, so nobody > will be wondering why the instrument name won't show up... > What for is the GrandStaff then? > > Till > > > > > > /Mats > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
