Re: Start new score without line break

[Alexander Kobel]

Andrew,

On 2017-02-22 14:02, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> There's currently a thread here which refers in passing to the
> difficulty of starting a new score on a page without a line break or
> a page break.

I assume you refer to the thread that I hijacked to ask Pierre for his 
MuseScore-made D.C., right?  (For reference, I take the liberty to attach it.)

I just want to point out one important linguistic and technical detail:  what 
we are lacking is not so much the option to start a new score in-line, it's 
about suspending and restarting entire systems /within a score/ in-line.
That's different because a new score has it's own spacing, in particular 
vertically.  It /is/ actually possible to achieve the desired effect by putting 
two scores in markups and \fill-line them.  But it is certainly non-trivial to 
tweak the vertical spacing to the rest of the score above and below, or to make 
sure that the staves and elements in the two markup scores are vertically 
aligned.  Even less so for a sensible horizontal spacing, or the possibility to 
reconsider the breaks after the matter.

> Can this be done? I can see how you can use stopStaff and startStaff
> to get close, but there does not appear to be an obvious way to get
> system start delimiters and braces drawn if you do that.

I once tried to duplicate the SystemStartDelimiter stencil from the beginning 
of the line, to insert it at the place where \startStaff is called.  It would 
not be the most convenient approach (in particular, you'd typically want to 
have some vertically centered text in the gap), but at least a start.  And the 
missing delimiter is the main technical hindrance AFAICS.
Alas, I did not succeed; but I suspect that someone with a better Scheme- and 
Lily-internals-fu could make this work...

> Simply calling a new score always throws a line break.

See above; that's not quite what we want.


Cheers,
Alexander


> Could this be an enhancement to lilypond, to somehow specify \score
> with no line break?
> 
> So many publications use this, it seems like a surprising omission.
> 
> Andrew
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