Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

[Valentin Villenave]

On 5/27/20, Lib Lists <address@hidden> wrote:
> merge the stems so
> that the final result looks like one voice.

In that case, what you want clearly is \partcombine (\partCombine since 2.21).

If you have more than two voices, then you can always apply another
\partCombine on top of the first two voices, or use other tricks to
deal with the more complex situations.

> Finally, adding a \shortInstrumentName in the StaffGroup gives an
> error, but the resulting pdf is otherwise correct.

instrumentName and shortInstrumentName are both siple property
definitions, not variables or functions so the \ is not needed; just
     instrumentName = "something".

Cheers,
-- V.