Re: I Too Have Problems with Codas

[Thomas Morley]

2017-09-17 16:20 GMT+02:00 Robert Murdoch <address@hidden>:
> For some reason my reply to Shamus Hammons' "Problems with Codas" post
> hasn't shown up after half an hour, so I'll post about codas here instead.

Meanwhile it is there, recently a lot folk complained about similiar ...

> It is practically impossible to set up a coda properly in LilyPond. In most
> scores I've seen, the main score and the coda section are separated by
> whitespace on the same line, and the brackets/braces, barline before clef,
> clef, key signature and time signature are re-printed.
>
> It is possible, albeit extremely complicated, to create the whitespace and
> clef, key and time with \stopStaff and engravers, but it seems creating the
> brackets/braces and barline before the clef cannot be done, as powerful as
> LilyPond is.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg01027.html

Old code, perhaps not the best one, but it _is_ possible.

Ok, I'd never suggest to put something like that into our source.
Also, I never put it in the LSR because I felt it's a too poor and bad
hack even there.
But it makes it possible.

Cheers,
  Harm