Re: Manual Staff switches don't appear to work

[Mats Bengtsson]

This is a bug in the documentation. What happens is that
the command \new puts more emphasis on the meaning of
the word "new" than the fact that you have specified an
explicit name of the context. So, the second \new Staff = down
will not result in the already defined Staff context with the name
"down". However, if you say
\context Staff = down {
\new Voice {g a b c \change Staff = up d e fis g }
}
it should work. See "Creating contexts" in the manual
for more details.

  /Mats

Sandy Scott wrote:

> Not quite sure what the ettiquite for posting a bug that is quite probably my
> incompetence, but I'll just straight to it:
>
> This is the code from the Manual Staff Switches Page, with a few very small 
> changes (added the version comment and also put some notes in the voice) to 
> make it produce some output:
>
> *******************************************
> \version "2.10.0"
> <<
>  \new Staff = "up" {
>    \skip 1 * 10  % keep staff alive
>    }
>  \new Staff = "down" {
>    \skip 1 * 10  % idem
>    }
> (insert two "greater-than" signs here*)
> \new Staff = down
>  \new Voice {g a b c \change Staff = up d e fis g }
> *******************************************
>
> However, contrary to my expectations, this produces 3 staves, not 2 - the top 
> two are blank and the third contains the notes, but obviously without any staff 
> changes.
>
> Is this a bug, a problem with the Docs, or just me being stupid?
>
> Sandy Scott
> *PS. Is there a tidier way of getting round the top-posting filter?
>
>
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