Re: Adding a staff in the middle of a piece

[Martin Frankland]

I have the same problem. I have an SATB choir with female and male soloists
on top. I'd like to start the soloists' staffs after the choral intro.
Everything I've tried so far hasn't worked:

1. \startStaff and \stopStaff still display the staffs, but without lines.
My goal was to save the space of the staffs.

2. The Frenched score using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't work for me
since the male and female soloists alternate, so it displays only the one
singing and hides the other one. I want BOTH solo staffs displayed, the one
with the notes AND the one with rests, otherwise it's hard to read. Can we
tell Lilypond to hide whole *groups* of staffs that contain only rests?

3. I've tried writing the choral intro and the rest of the song as two
consecutive parts of the score, like this:

\score {
 {
  \ChoirIntro
  << \Soli \Choir >>
 }
 \layout{}
 \midi{}
}

but it doesn't work. The pdf displays the intro correctly followed by some
kind of empty system.


The closest thing I've found to a solution was to write two \score blocks,
like this:

\score {
\ChoirIntro
}

\score {
<< \Soli \Choir >>
\layout{}
\midi{}
}

The pdf output is what I want, but the midi is missing the intro. Note that
the following:

\score {
\ChoirIntro
\layout{}
\midi{}
}

\score {
<< \Soli \Choir >>
\layout{}
\midi{}
}

outputs the right pdf, but two separate midi files, which is not what I
want.

Any help would be much appreciated! My code was compiled with version
2.10.33.

--
Martin Frankland



James E. Bailey-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 09.07.2008 um 17:07 schrieb Francesco Spiga:
> 
>> I'm sorry for my telegraph-style question: is it possible to start a  
>> piece with, e.g. 3 staves ad add one more some measures later?
>>
>> Thank you
>> F.
> 
> There are several ways, you can use \stopStaff and \startStaff or  
> search the manuals for frenched score
> 
> 

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