Re: Temporary div. multiple staffs

[Aaron Hill]

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On 2022-04-05 11:06 pm, Evan Driscoll wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:37 AM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Unsure there is a definitively "right" way... but here's an option:
> >
> > http://lilybin.com/1l8whf/12
> >
> > Move the StaffGroup declaration outside the music.  Also, you can name
> > contexts so you can reference an existing one to avoid creating new 
> > ones
> > (explicitly or implicitly).
>
> Perfect, thanks!
>
> As a final tweak, in case anyone finds this thread in the future, 
> here's
> how to omit the time signature on the new staff:
> http://lilybin.com/1l8whf/15
>
> Though a question -- I discovered that adding *just* the \new 
> StaffGroup on
> the "outside" made things work -- on the simplified example, that'd be
> something like http://lilybin.com/1l8whf/16. In other words, that works
> even without explicitly naming the existing Staff context and referring 
> to
> it with \context. Is there any difference between these, aside from
> possible readability arguments?

In many cases, you can rely on the implicit handling of contexts.  Your 
example #16 above relies on the implicit continuation of the current 
context as only the divisi staff is explicitly created, so things do 
work as expected.

But note that this new staff appears below the original one.  If you 
wanted it to be above, consider:

http://lilybin.com/1l8whf/17

(I added color just to make it easier to see which context is which.)


-- Aaron Hill