Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

[Valentin Petzel]

Hi Kieren,

This should be very well doable with an engraver, similar to the engraver for 
group delimiters. Optimally this should integrate with the Instrument name 
engraver, so that the instrument name can behave differently depending on 
whether the group name is present (e.g. a group KLARINETTEN with names I in Es, 
II in B, III in B, BC in B. But when only one staff is present we do not get a 
group name, but the instrument name could become Klarinette I in B).

Cheers,
Valentin

01.11.2021 15:35:54 Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca>:

> Hi all,
> 
> Having struggled with this for almost a decade (see, e.g., 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-03/msg00314.html)… Is 
> this something that could be handled really well with an engraver? Or at 
> least a bunch of helpful syntactic sugar? Surely all of this manual work 
> (offset, calculate height, etc.) can be automagically handled…?
> 
> I’d love to pursue A Real Solution™ for this problem, if anyone out there is 
> interested in collaborating with me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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