I Too Have Problems with Codas

[Robert Murdoch]

Hi,

For some reason my reply to Shamus Hammons' "Problems with Codas" post 
hasn't shown up after half an hour, so I'll post about codas here instead.

It is practically impossible to set up a coda properly in LilyPond. In 
most scores I've seen, the main score and the coda section are separated 
by whitespace on the same line, and the brackets/braces, barline before 
clef, clef, key signature and time signature are re-printed.

It is possible, albeit extremely complicated, to create the whitespace 
and clef, key and time with \stopStaff and engravers, but it seems 
creating the brackets/braces and barline before the clef cannot be done, 
as powerful as LilyPond is. All examples I've seen for codas in the 
LilyPond Snippet Repository are for a single staff that requires no 
brackets or braces, which isn't really helpful.

Maybe I'm wrong—I haven't explored every single aspect of the program, 
after all—but I thought codas would be made easy to create after all 
these years.

If my description above didn't help, here's blank sheet music of sixteen 
bars with a coda, done in MuseScore.

coda_example.png
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