Re: temporary staff for divisi

[Simon Bailey]

figured this one out:

On 11 Nov 2009, at 14:56, Stefan Thomas wrote:
> I have a last question.
> Why is the shortInstrumentName for Violin one solo not shown?

because the staff only just started. lily puts the instrumentName at  
the beginning of the first line of a staff. (naïve explanation, trying  
to sound like i know what i'm talking about).

> Here the snippet:
> \version "2.12.2"
>  violineA = \context Staff ="ViolineA"
>  { \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violine 1"
>   \set Staff.shortInstrumentName="Vlne.1"
>
>
>    c'' 4 d'' e'' f'' g'' a'' b'' c'''\break
>  <<
>    \new Staff \with { alignAboveContext = "ViolineA" }
>    { \set Staff.shortInstrumentName="Vlne. 1 solo" %why is this not  
> shown?
%add this here:
      \set Staff.instrumentName="Vlne. 1 solo"

>      c'''4^"solo"( d''' e''' f''' g''' a''' b''' c'''') }
>    { c'' 4 d'' e'' f'' g'' a'' b'' c''' } >>
>  }
>  violineB = \context Staff ="ViolineB"
>  { \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violine 2"
>    \set Staff.shortInstrumentName="Vlne. 2"
>    \repeat "unfold" 2 { c'' 4 b' a' g' f' e' d' c' }}
> \score {
>  \new StaffGroup <<
>  \new GrandStaff \violineA
>   \violineB >>
>
> }


hth,
sb
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