Re: Getting rid of initial brace on piano score

[Peter Toye]

David,

Thanks again. Comments below.

Best regards,

Peter
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www.ptoye.com

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Thursday, April 3, 2014, 7:36:23 PM, you wrote:

Hi Peter, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Peter Toye <address@hidden> wrote: David, Thanks very much for this very fast answer. But two things: 1) I get a syntax error > D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Mendelssohn/March2.ly:61:16: error: wrong > type for argument 1.  Expecting string, found transparent >    \alterBroken >                 #'transparent #'(#t) Score.SystemStartBrace > > D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Mendelssohn/March2.ly:61:37: error: wrong > type for argument 3.  Expecting list, found "Score" >    \alterBroken #'transparent #'(#t) >                                      Score.SystemStartBrace > > D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Mendelssohn/March2.ly:61:42: error: syntax error, unexpected '.' >    \alterBroken #'transparent #'(#t) Score >                                           .SystemStartBrace > > D:/Peter/Music/Lilypond/Mendelssohn/March2.ly:54:2: error: errors found, ignoring music _expression_ >   >   \new PianoStaff This is because I gave you the syntax for the latest stable version, 2.18. If memory serves, in 2.16 the syntax should be as follows: \alterBroken Score,SystemStartBrace #'transparent #'(#t) Sorry, forgot about the change of argument ordering.

That didn't work - LP complains about an unwanted comma. Replacing by a space or adding spaces don't work either. I'm still trying to work my head around the meta-syntax (which doesn't seem to be documented) in the Notation manual's appendix A which is the only place that \alterBroken appears.

2) Your message implies that you think I want to get rid of the second brace. That's not the case - I want to get rid of the first one if possible. If I can't it's no great problem - I have to be more careful with the scissors! No, I understood this.  Did you try the attached file?

Yes, that works fine - but your second solution is so elegant in comparison.

--David