Re: Hello everyone / Instrument-Name-Abbreviation on front of every system

[David Nalesnik]

Hi UCas,

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:12 PM, UCas <address@hidden> wrote:
> ** me **
>
> First of all, hello everyone.
> I use lilypond for a few years now and until today I found a solution
> for most of my problems by myself or by asking @JANieuwenhuizen on
> Twitter. ;-)
> Today, instead of asking him I thought, I could do the thing he
> recommended a time ago: joining the users-list and here I am. Hi.
>
> ** my issue **
>
> For scores with more than 3 or 4 instruments I would find it useful, if
> I could put a short for the instrument-name in front of every line.
> The first system has the instruments in front, but I do not find a way
> to put an abbreviation of the names in front of every system across the
> score.
>
> Is there a helpful snippet anywhere in the documentation? Any Idea?


First of all, welcome to the community!

To answer your question, see the documentation here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-parts#instrument-names

Hope this helps,

David