Re: Score.skipTypesetting

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Orm,

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Orm Finnendahl
<address@hidden> wrote:
> As the instrument names are short, lilypond must know that it isn't at
> the beginning of the piece. It would be preferrable to have unindented
> first staffs, as that would better resemble the final layout, if the
> typesetting (re)starts at linebreaks.

LilyPond won't really try to guess something like this based on
instrument names. If you start a new \score block LilyPond will create
a new score, indented, at bar 1 etc., which is as it should be IMO
(i.e. it behaves consistently rather than trying to guess your
intentions). Multi-movement forms (suites, sonatas) frequently do this
(start a new indented score on the same page). Sometimes it can be a
good solution to use a new \score block in place of a line break in an
existing score, in which case the best thing to do would be to
continue as you are. If you post a snippet illustrating the problem
then perhaps someone could suggest an alternative that you haven't
thought of.

hth,
Kevin