Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

[-Eluze]

by default, the Instrument_name_engraver does not seem to be part of the
StaffGroup - so you have to add it yourself:

\layout {
  \context {
    \StaffGroup   
    \consists Instrument_name_engraver
} }

hth



Orm Finnendahl-3 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  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
> either). Below is the code for one of the four percussion players with
> the name assigned to the top staff.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> --
> Orm
> 
> \version "2.13.23"
> 
> poneone = { {
>   f4 a c' e' g'
> } }
> 
> ponetwo = { { 
>   f4 a c' e' g'
> } }
> ponethreeup = { \relative c' {
>   c4 e g b d 
> } }
> 
> ponethreedown = { \relative c {
>   g b d f a
> } }
> 
> \score {
>  \new StaffGroup { 
>    <<
>      \new Staff = poneone {
>        \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Perkussion 1"
> "" }
>        \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Perk. 1"
> "" }
>        \clef percussion \poneone
>      }
>      \new Staff = ponetwo {
>        \clef percussion \ponetwo
>      }
>      \new PianoStaff { <<
>   \new Staff = ponethreeup {
>     \ponethreeup
>   }
>   \new Staff = ponethreedown {
>     \clef bass \ponethreedown
>   }
>     >> }
>   >>
>  }
>  \layout {
>    indent = 4\cm
>   \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }
>  }
> }
> 
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