Re: Resume writing to a staff later

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> I'm in the process of switching more and more of my typesetting jobs from 
> Mup to Lilypond, 

good!

> but I have some trouble getting used to the way Lilypond
> wants me to write every full staff and then combine them in a score.
>
> I would rather write a few measures for every staff and then the next few 
> measures, etc. so that the different voices are close together in the 
> source file.
>
> Is it possible to start a context with notes and later write other notes 
> to that context? I didn't get it right so far. E.g.
>
> \context Voice="soprano" { c d e f | g a d b}
> \context Voice="alto" { a b c d | a b c d }
> and then later
> \context Voice="soprano" { d e f g } % etc.
>
> TIA for any help.

you could do

  sopranoNotes = { c d e f}
  ....

  sopranoNotes = { \sopranoNotes g a b c }
  ..

  \context Voice = "soprano" \sopranoNotes

I can also devise code to automate this a little more if you're willing 
to cover the development costs. Then you could do  something like



  #(start-slices "soprano" "alto")
  { c d e f } % sopr
  { a b c d } % alto
  { d e f g } % sopr
  { g ges f e } % alto
  #(end-slices)

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