Re: global marks on Hara-Kiri staves

[Mats Bengtsson]

> I have an "orchestral" score that uses HaraKiri staves to eliminate staves
> that don't have anything on them (duh).  I also have a part that consists
> of all \skips, but does have tempo markings and rehearsal marks.  I always
> want to see the marks, but I only want to see any particular mark once.
> If I put the marks on ALL the parts, then I get every mark on every part
> which isn't what I want.  If I put the marks only on the top part then
> I don't see the mark at all when HaraKiri blows away that part.  What I need
> is a mechanism to put the mark on the top part left after HaraKiri processing,
> whatever part that may be.
> 
> Is there a way to associate a global set of marks with the score as a
> whole, or maybe a staff group, so you are guaranteed to see every mark,
> but only once (or once per staff group)?

Certainly, let the Mark_engraver live in the Score context instead
of the Staff context. This has been the default for quite a long
time. If you use an old Lilypond version, I recommend upgrading
to 1.4.

    /Mats