Re: Keep alive together - call for use cases

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Mark,

> I've been working on some patches to enable more flexible uses
> for the Keep_alive_together_engraver.

Thank you!

> if I could ask users for any situations where they can imagine this
> engraver helping, that currently don't work, or don't work easily.

1a. The "frenched score with ScoreMarks / MarkLine / whatever” use-case is my 
main one. (This use-case would, I assume, include “large time signature” lines, 
chord symbols, etc.?)

1b. Essentially identical — but not “marks” exactly — is the “dialogue” 
(TextLine) above/below a theatre work (e.g., musical, opera, narrated). Again, 
in a frenched score situation, that line should live and die with the “last 
context standing”.

2. The “divisi staves” use-case is also a primary feature/request for me. 
Similar/analogous use-cases: a two-stave harp part compressing (if necessary) 
to a single staff in the full score.

To be honest, I can’t really think of any other significantly different 
use-cases at the moment… but I have no doubt that they’re out there, and if I 
think of one, I’ll be sure to let you know about it.

Thanks! Can’t wait for this feature to be available “in the trenches".  =)
Kieren.
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