Hendrik Maryns wrote:
Hi,
After some experimenting a year ago, I started again now with
Lilypond 2.6.0 becoming available on Windows (with an easy interface,
congratulations!).
In trying to make my first piece, I'd like a first staff for the
preamble (voorspel, what's it called?), then from the second line
have two staves. I have this now with the following code, but the
splitting up in two << >> contexts seems inappropiate.
Definitely! The easiest solution is to take a look at Section
"8.3.2 Hiding staves" in the manual and then figure out how you can
use this feature to get what you want. Hint: Start the second
stave with s1*4 \break
An alternative solution can be found if you browse through the examples
in the "Tips and Tricks" document.
> Also, now the \time
signature is ignored in the second and further staves. So how can I
achieve this? By hiding the second stave on the first line, or
adding a new stave only at a certain point or...
You mean the setting of Staff.TimeSignature #'style ?
The above solution solves half the problem. However, you may
want to read Section "9.1.5 Changing context default settings".
Some more questions: how to add Unicode in the title (I want ë.
TeX-syntax \"e didn't work.)
See Section "8.1.5 Text encoding"
And I'd like a pianostaff-like brace in front of my staves, but
adding \pianoStaff messes up the text and all.
Search for "brace" in the "LilyPond Index"
Also, can I suspend a {}-group and continue it later, or do I have to
do the first voice in total, then the second. This is a copy of
existing music, as you might have guessed, so that would be easier to
type.
You might want to use identifiers, see Section "2.18 Organizing larger
pieces"