Re: Start new score without line break

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 14:28 +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> On 2017-02-22 14:02, Andrew Bernard wrote:
[...]
> 
> > Can this be done? I can see how you can use stopStaff and startStaff
> > to get close, but there does not appear to be an obvious way to get
> > system start delimiters and braces drawn if you do that.
> 
> I once tried to duplicate the SystemStartDelimiter stencil from the
> beginning of the line, to insert it at the place where \startStaff is
> called.  It would not be the most convenient approach (in particular,
> you'd typically want to have some vertically centered text in the
> gap), but at least a start.  And the missing delimiter is the main
> technical hindrance AFAICS.
> Alas, I did not succeed; but I suspect that someone with a better
> Scheme- and Lily-internals-fu could make this work...

I wonder if you could get LilyPond to draw the brace after the break in
the staff by defining a custom barline and putting that there? It would
not work for nested braces, but I think most applications are just a
single brace.


Richard