I found the information, sorry for the noise: "To add instrument names to other contexts (such as GrandStaff, ChoirStaff, or StaffGroup), Instrument_name_engraver must be added to that context. For details, see Modifying context plug-ins<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/modifying-context-plug_002dins> ."
It's where it was expected to be: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/writing-parts#instrument-names 2011/1/14 Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com> > 2011/1/14 James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> > > >> >> >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves#index-staff-group >> >> >> >> Scroll down you will see >> >> >> >> 'The PianoStaff is identical to a GrandStaff, except that it supports >> printing the instrument name directly. For details, see Instrument names. ' >> >> >> >> Is this what you needed? >> >> >> >> >> > > Thanks, James. > If you are suggesting to use PianoStaff instead of StaffGroup, > unfortunately > it doesn't work because it seems that PianoStaff can group only Staff > contexts. > If you include TabStaff an extra (unwanted) Staff group is created. Try: > > \new PianoStaff << > \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Guitar 1 " > > \new Staff { R1 } > \new TabStaff { R1 } > >> > > And that's fine: I don't want to use PianoStaff for a guitar :-) > > So who uses PianoStaff knows how to center the instrument name. > Who uses StaffGroup doesn't know. > I think that the page where adding such information is this one: > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/writing-parts#instrument-names > > Cheers, > Federico > > > >
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
