Re: PianoStaff and StaffGroup brackets are truncating single line DrumStaff at top left of staff system.

[David Kastrup]

dfro <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create a StaffGroup that includes a single line Staff or
> DrumStaff at the top. I am having the problem that the left most
> measure bar line and the brackets of each staff system are being
> truncated down to the staff line of the single staff.
>
> I have tried a workaround by making a second staff line and then
> hiding it using some code from a snippet. This causes the bar line and
> the bracket to extend the same as the other measures, but then measure
> repeat dots are not being centered around the single visible line, but
> are rather being centered between the visible line and the hidden
> line.
>
> Is there a way to override this behavior with a single line staff at
> the top of a PianoStaff or StaffGroup - to get the leftmost bar line
> to be the same as normal bar lines, and to get the brackets to extend
> to the end of the leftmost bar line?
>
> Thank you for any thoughts or ideas, and thank you for this wonderful
> software!
>
> Peace,
>
> David
>
>
> Here is an example:
>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \new StaffGroup        %leftmost measure bar and group (or piano)
> bracket are being truncated down to the drum staff's single line.
>
> <<
>       \new DrumStaff \with {
>             \override StaffSymbol.line-count = #1
>             \override BarLine.bar-extent = #' (0 . 2.5)} %would like
> leftmost measure bar line and bracket to extend the same as second
> bar.

I am not fixing the awful things your mail program did to your code
(consider using an attachment instead).  You probably want to add

        \override StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(0 . 2.5)

here.

>       {
>             | c c c c
>       }
>       \new Staff \relative c' {
>             | c c c c
>       }
>       \new Staff \relative c' {
>             | c c c c
>       }
>>>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
>
>
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David Kastrup