Sponsorship - Better Incipits / Ossai Staves.

[Trent J]

Hi All,

This email is mainly directed at Han-Wen but if others have ideas and 
suggestions then please don't hesitate.

I'm looking to sponsor two features:

1: Better support for Incipits: looking at the current way of preparing 
incipits there isn't a way to restart the staff again e.g. to show the staff 
brackets etc to let reader know that the incipit ends and the staff 
restarts. Also there has be an incipit for the whole staff regardless of 
whether the clef or not values have changed or not. I've been trying 
examples of using markups to produce the incipit for a particular staff and 
then using manual overrides to shift it down and before the staff. As you 
can imagine this takes a lot of trial and error and can be quite time 
consuming to get one done let alone more.

2: The second feature is a better way to prepare ossia staves. I prepare a 
lot of baroque music and sometimes there a shortcuts in the notation for 
example: chords that should be played in the same way as the preceding bars. 
A fully functioning ossai stave would be beneficial.

Any thoughts and feedback appreciated.

Regards,

Trent Johnston