[Lilypond-auto] Issue 3981 in lilypond: Get our act together concerning snippets with incipits

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New issue 3981 by address@hidden: Get our act together concerning snippets  
with incipits
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3981

At the current point of time, I see the following snippets imported into  
our documentation and containing incipits:

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/ancient-notation#ancient-notation-ancient-notation-template-_002d-modern-transcription-of-mensural-music>:  
This  
one uses \cadenzaOn and a host of overrides to squeeze the incipits  
in.  This results in good horizontal and vertical alignment but far too  
loose spacing.  A separate spacing section, possibly with different  
defaults, might help.  Midi output will likely be generated for the incipit  
which is quite undesirable.  There might be issues with accidentals  
carrying over.

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/ancient-notation#ancient-notation-incipit>:  
This  
one looks cleanest.  Every incipit is typeset in a separate score  
markup of fixed width that needs to get specified manually.  Vertical  
alignment is fine, artifacts escaping to Midi are not a problem but  
horizontal alignment between staves is non-existent.

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/ancient-notation#ancient-notation-transcription-of-ancient-music-with-incipit>:  
This  
one is worst.  It fails to get vertical alignment right (basically  
because of a missing override) and tries fudging incipit lyrics with text  
scripts.  Horizontal alignment of incipits is not even attempted via a  
common width of the individual incipits.  As a result, the incipits show  
spacing as compact as the mensural scores would likely have when used in  
single voices.  That seems like a defensible approach to me but I doubt it  
is common.

It appears to me like we should try figuring out what we want to be seeing  
here and then figure out a good strategy to actually arrive there.

Going through instrument names seems like a nice trick.  However, I suspect  
that doing it really well would rather involve creating the incipit staves  
as one aligned score, then split up the systems and deal them up in the  
vertical axis groups of the staves.  That way, all important alignments  
should arrive intact and the total space taken would not require manual  
intervention.

But that's an ultimate goal.  First we should get the various snippets  
individually as best and clean as we can according to their respective  
designs.

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