Re: Resume writing to a staff later

[Mats Bengtsson]

I guess it's mostly a matter of getting used to it. However, you
can do something like

sopranoBlockI = {c d e f | g a d b}
altoBlockI = { a b c d | a b c d }
...
\ = { d e f g }
...

\score{
  <<
  \context Voice = soprano {\sopranoBlockI sopranoBlockII ... }
  \context Voice = alto {\altoBlockI altoBlockII ... }
  ...
  >>
}


You might also want to take a look at the preprocessor called "sly"
that has been announced on the mailing list some year ago.

   /Mats

Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of switching more and more of my typesetting jobs from 
> Mup to Lilypond, but I have some trouble getting used to the way Lilypond 
> wants me to write every full staff and then combine them in a score.
>
> I would rather write a few measures for every staff and then the next few 
> measures, etc. so that the different voices are close together in the 
> source file.
>
> Is it possible to start a context with notes and later write other notes 
> to that context? I didn't get it right so far. E.g.
>
> \context Voice="soprano" { c d e f | g a d b}
> \context Voice="alto" { a b c d | a b c d }
> and then later
> \context Voice="soprano" { d e f g } % etc.
>
> TIA for any help.
>
> best regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen

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