Re: First line single staff, then double and some other beginner questions

[Mats Bengtsson]

Hendrik Maryns wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After some experimenting a year ago, I started again now with Lilypond 
> 2.6.0 becoming available on Windows (with an easy interface, 
> congratulations!).
>
> In trying to make my first piece, I'd like a first staff for the 
> preamble (voorspel, what's it called?), then from the second line have 
> two staves.  I have this now with the following code, but the splitting 
> up in two << >> contexts seems inappropiate.

Definitely! The easiest solution is to take a look at Section
"8.3.2 Hiding staves" in the manual and then figure out how you can
use this feature to get what you want. Hint: Start the second
stave with s1*4 \break

An alternative solution can be found if you browse through the examples
in the "Tips and Tricks" document.

> Also, now the \time
> signature is ignored in the second and further staves.  So how can I 
> achieve this?  By hiding the second stave on the first line, or adding a 
> new stave only at a certain point or...

You mean the setting of Staff.TimeSignature #'style ?
The above solution solves half the problem. However, you may
want to read Section "9.1.5 Changing context default settings".


> Some more questions: how to add Unicode in the title (I want ë. 
> TeX-syntax \"e didn't work.)
See Section "8.1.5 Text encoding"

> And I'd like a pianostaff-like brace in front of my staves, but adding 
> \pianoStaff messes up the text and all.
Search for "brace" in the "LilyPond Index"

> Also, can I suspend a {}-group and continue it later, or do I have to do 
> the first voice in total, then the second.  This is a copy of existing 
> music, as you might have guessed, so that would be easier to type.

You might want to use identifiers, see Section "2.18 Organizing larger
pieces"



   /Mats