Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

[Trevor Daniels]

Orm Finnendahl wrote Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:56 PM

> I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them 
> will
> use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and 
> a
> combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have 
> the
> name "Percussion 1" printed in front of the whole group, 
> vertically
> centered and always printed throughout the score, even if some 
> staffs
> are removed with the \RemoveEmptyStaffContext if they don't 
> contain
> anything for some systems. Does somebody know about a way to
> accomplish that? I couldn't find anything in the docs or LSR (I 
> also
> checked orchestrallily to no avail).
>
> I tried
>
> \set StaffGroup.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { 
> "Perkussion 1" }
> but that doesn't print anything (although it doesn't complain

You need to add the Instrument_name_engraver to
StaffGroup, and also set shortInstrumentName.

See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/writing-parts#instrument-names

Trevor