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Subject:    Re: Learning how to use "\change Staff"; don't get it yet, obviously
From:       Jean Abou Samra <jean () abou-samra ! fr>
Date:       2022-08-22 15:21:35
Message-ID: BF871588-14A4-464E-8E5F-5AD7A234785A () abou-samra ! fr
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> Le 22 août 2022 à 17:12, Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> you have two different scores, one that produces a score and one that produces 
> midi (is there any specific reason not to use one score with both \layout { } 
> and \midi { }?).
> 
> The first one works fine, the seconds creates problems. Basically what's 
> happening is that you never actually names any staves "RH" or "LH", so 
> Lilypond cannot chance context. Change the \new Staff lines to \new Staff = 
> "..." and it will work. Caveat: Changing contexts might fail if these context 
> to be changing into is not alive at that time, e.g. due to a line break.


Hi Valentin,

A minor question: the statement above is something I don't understand, what do line \
breaks have to do with contexts being alive?

Thanks,

Jean




> 
> This means that when doing such things you need to make sure that the context 
> you want to change into is alive, for example by filling the staves with
> 
> << 
> \rh
> #(skip-of-length lh)
> > > 
> 
> or even
> 
> << 
> \rh
> #(skip-of-length rh)
> #(skip-of-length lh)
> > > 
> 
> Cheers,
> Valentin
> 
> 
> 
> Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2022, 23:48:59 CEST schrieb Kenneth Wolcott:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I'm learning how to engrave music that changes from one staff to another.
> > 
> > I, obviously, do not understand yet how to do this, even after
> > reading the pertinent section in the Notation Reference.
> > 
> > My attempt to engrave the first three bars of the harp score of Swan
> > Lake fails with the following:
> > 
> > Swan_Lake.ly:40:3: warning: cannot find context to change to: Staff = RH
> > 
> > \change Staff = "RH"
> > Swan_Lake.ly:22:3: warning: cannot find context to change to: Staff = LH
> > 
> > \change Staff = "LH" <> s4                                    | % m01
> > 
> > I have attached a screenshot of the first three bars of the harp
> > score of Swan Lake, my LIlypond source code and the result of my
> > engraving attempt.
> > 
> > I don't think that there's anything wrong with Lilypond, and there's
> > nothing wrong with the documentation, but this Lilypond user is a bit
> > dense.
> > 
> > If I can just get the first bar engraving correctly, I think I can
> > make it the rest of the way :-)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> 


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