Re: instrument names for GrandStaff, etc.

[Marcus Macauley]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:39:09 -0400, Kieren MacMillan  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, Marcus:
>
> > Just a quick suggestion. Why not let a GrandStaff have an instrumentName
> > (and a shortInstrumentName), just like a Staff and a PianoStaff already  
> > do?
>
> Just in case you don't know, you can always add this feature to your own  
> scores with
>
> \context
> {
>      \GrandStaff
>      \consists "Instrument_name_engraver"
> }
>
> For more information, see the example at <http://www.lilypond.org/doc/ 
> v2.9/input/test/lily-473581812.ly>.


Kieren,

That's just what I was looking for! I now see that the example in  
question, instrument-name-grandstaff.ly, resides in the "Tips and Tricks"  
section of documentation:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/input/test/collated-files.html

The same trick works for ChoirStaff or StaffGroup, too, adding a new  
\context block for each.

Perhaps this should be mentioned in the documentation, under:

8.2.5 Instrument names
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Instrument-names.html

Or are we expected to search the main documentation, and failing that,  
Regression Tests, Tips and Tricks, and Examples, and failing that, the  
email archives, and failing that, a message to lilypond-user? It seems to  
me, a link wouldn't hurt. And if I knew how to edit the documentation, I'd  
add it myself.

Anyway, thanks for the tip!

(BTW, I still don't see why the Instrument_name_engraver isn't part of the  
GrandStaff, if not the ChoirStaff and StaffGroup, *automatically*, but at  
least there's an easy enough workaround for now, so I won't complain.)

Marcus