Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Trevor Daniels schrieb: Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the "SmallStaff" just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include "small_staff.lyi" \score { \new SmallStaff {.

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the "SmallStaff" just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include "small_staff.lyi" \score { \new SmallStaff {...} } How would one make

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-22 Thread Marc Hohl
Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the "SmallStaff" just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include "small_staff.lyi" \score { \new SmallStaff {...} } How would one make small_staff.lyi so this worked? This way it would be

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Polesky
(sorry for the duplicate message, the first one bounced) My 2 cents... 1) The 1891 Breitkopf & Härtel edition of Brahms' Piano Trio Op.8 (1889 version) has the smaller staves exactly 2/3 the height of the larger staves. Click "Complete score": http://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_No.1,_Op

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Kieren MacMillan Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:47 AM From my point of view the main use for smallStaff (or whatever it gets called) is for ossia staves. Except IIRC ossia staves and solo/cue staves are usually of different sizes, yes? In scores for a capella vocal music a piano accompaniment

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, From my point of view the main use for smallStaff (or whatever it gets called) is for ossia staves. Except IIRC ossia staves and solo/cue staves are usually of different sizes, yes? Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lily

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:18:12PM -0700, Jay Anderson wrote: > If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: > > \include "small_staff.lyi" BTW, the latest discussion was to use .ily > How would one make small_staff.lyi so this worked? This way it would > be bundled with the other g

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Dan Eble wrote: > Doesn't this mix up meaning and appearance? What will you do when people > come asking for LargeStaff, TinyStaff, LittleGreenStaff (for Martian music), > and so forth? On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Alexander Kobel wrote: > Oh, and by the way...

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jay (et al.): Attached is a patch which adds "SmallStaff" to engraver-init.ly. Everywhere that \accepts "Staff" was used I just added \accepts "SmallStaff". Let me know if this looks good. Just a small point: has anyone confirmed that -3 is a "standard" magstep? 1. When looking at hand-en

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Dan Eble
Doesn't this mix up meaning and appearance? What will you do when people come asking for LargeStaff, TinyStaff, LittleGreenStaff (for Martian music), and so forth? I'm not saying it isn't useful, but maybe it should be named according to the purpose it serves rather than how it looks. Quo

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Jay Anderson
> Jay, Mark, anyone: are you interested in submitting a full patch, with > appropriate documentation, NEWS item etc? If so, we can officially > submit it for inclusion. Attached is a patch which adds "SmallStaff" to engraver-init.ly. Everywhere that \accepts "Staff" was used I just added \accepts

\context for named Staff

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Polesky
I've always wondered about this. Is there a way? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-08/msg00173.html - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel