Re: staff to end of socre

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 14 December 2011 20:21, Damian leGassick <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi David
>
> thanks for the quick reply
>
> the to-end-of-line function is half way there, but if I modify your example
> to \repeat unfold 17 there is only one staff after the line break
>
> what I'd like is for both staves to remain until the end of the score.
>
> I know that in a simple example it's just as easy to add spacers but I've
> got a number of complex musicological examples where the trial and error
> involved in determining exactly what spacer values to use is proving very
> time consuming

Hi,

If you know which voice is the longest and if you use variables for
the voices, then you can use  skip-of-length longestVoiceVariableName .

%%%%

\version "2.15.21"

shortestVoice = \repeat unfold 8 e'1
midLengthVoice = \repeat unfold 16 d'1
longestVoice = \repeat unfold 24 c'1

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff = "shortest" {
      <<
        % in order to keep alive the staff (with spacer rests)
        $(skip-of-length longestVoice)  % 2.15.21 syntax
        % #(skip-of-length longestVoice)  % 2.14.2 syntax
        \shortestVoice
      >>
    }
    \new Staff = "midLength" {
      <<
        % in order to keep alive the staff (with spacer rests)
        $(skip-of-length longestVoice)  % 2.15.21 syntax
        % #(skip-of-length longestVoice)  % 2.14.2 syntax
        \midLengthVoice
      >>
    }
    \new Staff = "longest" {
      \longestVoice
    }
  >>
}

%%%%

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>