Re: Ossia requiring an entire PianoStaff, urgent.

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

On 3/5/12, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
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> From: "Hwaen Ch'uqi" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:12 PM
> Subject: Ossia requiring an entire PianoStaff, urgent.
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>
>> Greetings All,
>>   I am entering a composition competition for piano duo, and I have
>> but a few days before I must submit my score. As one will see from the
>> excerpt of the practical score, the Primo part, begining from m.42,
>> includes an ossia for the left hand. Simultaneously, the Secondo part
>> includes an ossia for both hands, thus requiring another PianoStaff
>> context. Though the ossia sections of the 2.14.2 NR do not show
>> instances of ossias requiring another PianoStaff context, the result
>> seems fairly acceptable. However, when all is combined into a full
>> score, one will quickly see that a problem arises -- namely, that the
>> ossia of the Primo appears below the entire system of music. I have a
>> notion that the answer lies somewhere in the explanation of NR 5.1.7,
>> though I cannot exactly find the direct application to my situation. I
>> would be most grateful for any suggestions. I have also included the
>> .ly file for the first 54 measures of the full score. Apart from the
>> indication of pageBreaks, the code for the individual parts is exactly
>> preserved from their respective .ly files. Many thanks.
>> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>>
>
> 2 suggestions: 1) when you're trying to sort out complex layout problems
> like this, it's very much easier to get rid of almost all the notes and do
> it with an absolute minimum of other stuff, except the staves you're trying
> to get right.  2) it looks to me like you have 2 staves called up and 2
> called down.  I'd suggest calling them upone and uptwo and then trying to
> align the ossias to the desired stave.  Not tested.  If this doesn't work,
> see 1).
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>
>
>

Greetings Phil,
          Many thanks for both general advice and specific suggestion. This
was in fact the problem, the duplicate naming of contexts. Everything
is now beautifully aligned.
Hwaen Ch'uqi