Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3980 in lilypond: Patch: Adds incipit section to NR

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Comment #5 on issue 3980 by address@hidden: Patch: Adds incipit section to NR
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3980

Before investing a lot of time: I'm currently digging into whether there is  
some markup-like way that would preserve alignment between staves.

I've taken a look at the various incipits we have in our ancient music  
snippets: there are basically two snippets with a mechanism worth  
retaining.  One is incipit.ly, the other worked without instrument name,  
using something like cadenzaOn.  One snippet is basically incipit.ly but  
worse: it uses instrument names, no music function, and gets a lot of  
alignment wrong.  After cleaning this snippet up, it's basically the same  
as incipit.ly and consequently not worth keeping or considering.

For single-line incipits, harvesting the bulk of the incipit definition in  
incipit.ly seems like the best way forward.  A somewhat more versatile  
approach where one specifies the context type to use as one argument might  
make sense.  I am not sure what the best way to deal with "indent" etc is:  
the way used in incipit.ly seems awfully ad-hoc.

While I'm currently trying to work on something more clever, that involves  
poking around a lot in the dark in the paper system formatter.  I am not  
sure when or how it will finish, and it will likely be somewhat complex.

Even if it comes around eventually, it might or might not be nice enough to  
use even for single-staff/simple incipits.

So I'd give a cautious go-ahead, with a warning to provide early feedback  
if it appears that you'd have to put in a considerable amount of work.

Thanks for caring.

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