Re: MIDI output of multiple scores into a single MIDI file?

[David Kastrup]

Dossy Shiobara <address@hidden> writes:

> On 9/29/13 5:29 PM, Federico Bruni wrote:
>> are you  sure you need to organize it in \score blocks?
>> can you use variables instead (and one \score block)?
> One \score is a 4-bar PianoStaff intro only, then the second \score is
> the rest of the arrangement, that contains ChordNames, FretBoards, a
> Voice with Lyrics, and a PianoStaff for the accompaniment.
>
> When I tried to do this as a single score, I put skips in all the parts
> other than the PianoStaff for the intro 4-bar section, and used
> \RemoveEmptyStaffContext to try and "hide" all the other parts, but
> while they didn't visibly engrave anything, they created a lot of
> padding between the header and the first system which I just couldn't
> figure out how to get rid of.

Stop right here.  You seem to labor under the illusion that a score has
to look like

\score {
  << ...
  >>
}

but there is nothing keeping a score from being

\score {
  {
    << ...
    >>
  }
  {
    << ...
    >>
  }
}

namely containing a _sequence_ of StaffGroups or similar.

-- 
David Kastrup