Re: \context for named Staff

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:18:12PM -0700, Jay Anderson wrote:
> If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like:
> 
> \include "small_staff.lyi"

BTW, the latest discussion was to use .ily

> How would one make small_staff.lyi so this worked? This way it would
> be bundled with the other global variables. The only way I found was
> to do this:
> 
> small_staff.lyi
> =====
> \context {
>   \Score
>   \accepts "SmallStaff"
> }
> \context {
>   \Staff
>   \type "Engraver_group"
>   \name "SmallStaff"
>   \alias "Staff"
> 
>   fontSize = #-3
>   \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3)
> }

Looks fine to me.  You could even name the file
"small-engavers.ily" and let other people submit additions for
their favorite engravers (in case anybody wanted a small
tabulature staff or whatever).

Cheers,
- Graham