Re: short instrument name setting

[chip]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> > Yeah... \context is okay, I guess, but surely my way of doing
> > this---using \set short.InstrumentName in the appropriate \staff block
> > is the more idiomatic way to go. That way the definition is
> > *completely* removed from the content. It just seems more LilyPondish.
>
> Agreed!
> I always try to set instrument name(s) in the \score block (or a 
> subcontext) instead of the content — I probably should have started by 
> suggesting that to Chip.
>
> The only place where this approach doesn't work well is with 
> instrument switches, which are still unnecessarily complex and 
> error-prone in Lilypond.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
I've been reading all the messages in this thread and haven't quite 
understood all of it, but I believe you are referring to the content 
section as the section where all the notes are. That being the wrong 
place to put
\set short.instrumentname. I finally settled on putting the instrument 
names in this section of my score, which is how I have it now, using the 
header item 'piece'. This works well and looks good on the printed sheet.

\book { \score { << \new Staff = "trumpeta" \with { \remove 
Instrument_name_engraver } \trumpeta >> \header {piece="Trumpet 1"} 
\layout { indent = 0\mm} } }

Whether or not this is the 'correct' way I don't know, but it does the job.
Regards,
Chip