Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-30 Thread Hans Aikema
On 30 Oct 2023, at 08:18, Evan Driscoll wrote:The docs seem to talk about Keep_alive_together_engraver saying it "is particularly useful for ‘divisi’ staves, where some individual parts (see Writing parts) occasionally need to be expanded to more than one staff" (noting that maybe it's talking abo

Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-30 Thread Hans Aikema
On 30 Oct 2023, at 02:04, Evan Driscoll wrote:On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 2:08 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote:Look up the documentation of `Keep_alive_together_engraver`, which explains how to make LilyPond split such divisi parts automatically. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/n

Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-30 Thread Evan Driscoll
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 1:14 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > OK. Please construct an example how it should look like *optically* > (the actual LilyPond code doesn't matter), together with some > explanations why you want this and that. It's not clear to me what > you really want to achieve. > In th

Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#hiding-staves > > Thanks. I've been playing around with this, but I still am not sure > how to make it work -- I've tried a few things, and it's not > removing the empty staves. OK. Please construct an example how

Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-29 Thread Evan Driscoll
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 2:08 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Look up the documentation of `Keep_alive_together_engraver`, which > explains how to make LilyPond split such divisi parts automatically. > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#hiding-staves Tha

Re: Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've pasted some example code after my signature I'm having trouble with. > Can anyone help me solve these problems: [...] Look up the documentation of `Keep_alive_together_engraver`, which explains how to make LilyPond split such divisi parts automatically. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Doc

Switching between one staff and two

2023-10-28 Thread Evan Driscoll
Something that I always have trouble with (I'm only an occasional Lilypond user) is writing parts that switch from one staff to two and back, and getting that so it's correct. If there's a relevant section of the manual I have a hard time finding it, and I often find problems when adapting previous