Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

[Benedict Singer]

Hi all,

I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set 
my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I 
just want to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12 
before that), it's incredible what everyone has done, so much thanks!

A member of my choir wrote a new set of Preces and Responses, and we 
read it last night. The conductor typed it up for him using Finale, 
which he's not terribly proficient at using, so I volunteered to make a 
nice copy of it using Lilypond. So far the only issue I have is working 
out how to layout the page. I'd like to do it in the style of most other 
Preces/Responses I've seen, where there's a single staff for the 
priest's line, which stops, and then on the same horizontal line, a 2 
staff ChoirStaff for the choir part starts. A bad ascii-art representation:

                    | ------------
priest: ----------  | ------------

| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------

and so on down the page. An example I found on the web: 
http://static.musicroom.com/img/c/f/NOV441460.jpg

Poking around in the documentation/snippets and on google, I haven't 
been able to find a way to do this. I've attached a basic file that 
shows the musical structure I'm dealing with. Lilypond renders this with 
line breaks between all the \score blocks, whereas I want to suppress 
those, and just line break within \score blocks when appropriate. Can I 
achieve this? If not, is something like: 
http://static.musicroom.com/img/c/f/NOV290559.jpg the best I could hope 
to do currently?

Alternatively, do I need to play games with stopping/starting staffs and 
reprinting clefs/key signatures? If so, how do I make it look exactly 
like the start of a new system (brackets, possibly instrument names, etc)?

Any suggestions and help much appreciated! Thanks!

Ben

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