Re: Staff Grouping

[David Kastrup]

Dave Higgins <address@hidden> writes:

> Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
>  
>> I actually don't understand what you expect LilyPond to be doing here, but 
>> the issue of temporarily starting and stopping staves is covered quite well 
>> in the Notation Reference in the section on Ossia Staves.  Have you tried 
>> adapting code from there?
>> 
>
> I expect that when I define a new staff in part1, that the new staff will
> stay with part1 and not intermingle with part2 in the score of multiple
> parts.  This is only an issue with building the score, not the individual
> parts.  If the solution is adding more notes of silence and removing them by
> hiding the staffs, then that's the solution.  It's not an elegant
> solution.

Without any other information, LilyPond will place new Staff contexts
below the existing ones.

If you want to change that order, there are properties like
alignAboveContext and alignBelowContext that you can set.

> I'm not sure you see what I've put in the examples and what comes out.

Is there anything wrong with the manual?  I think that
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/context-layout-order#index-alignAboveContext>
explains this reasonably well.

-- 
David Kastrup