Re: ossia with signatures where needed

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2011, 17:54:43 schrieb James Harkins:
> What I get: Two bars in the first system. The ossia staff (correctly) hides
> the staff lines in the first bar, but displays the clef and time signature
> at the system's left boundary -- free-floating, visually anchored to
> nothing. Everything else is fine.

that's because the default clef etc. are set at the very beginning, and only 
afterwards the stopStaff is processed.

> What I want: Ideally, the "free-floating" clef and time signature should
> display just left of the bar line to m2 (as if there were a clef and meter
> change in that bar). It would be really nice to have the staff lines
> extend backward just enough to cover that space.

The solution is not to create the ossia staff context at the very beginning, 
but right when you first need it.

Example is attached.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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