Re: Re-using "\with" contexts

Dear Lukas, Pierre, David,

Thank you all for your expert advice and examples. It is indeed quite straightforward - when you know how! I'll now be able to finish off my current piece, and start on the next one...

cheers,

Alasdair

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 1:21 AM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> There are examples of changing a staff context in the manual, for example at
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-creating-custom-key-signatures
>
> Here a new staff is instantiated; with about 10 lines of "\with" to change
> its appearance and behaviour.
>
> However, if I wish to use several such staves, I don't want to be copying
> the "\with" material into each one. Is it possible to create a new context
> just from such a definition? What I mean is something like
>
> myStaff = staff \with {
> < lots of lines of definition >
> }
>
> so that I can simply create a new staff the way I want it with, for example
>
> \new myStaff {
>
> }
>
> All I want is an example. There is some information about defining a new
> context, but in my case all I want is a tweaked version of a current
> context.

\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\name "myStaff"
< lots of lines of definition >
}
\inherit-acceptability myStaff Staff
}

--
David Kastrup

From:	Alasdair McAndrew
Subject:	Re: Re-using "\with" contexts
Date:	Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:23:47 +1000