Re: repeating bar numbers and rehearsal marks in frenched score

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
>> You could group the Dynamics context in a StaffGroup with its above
>> context, make it suicidal (empty KeepAliveInterfaces and set
>> remove-empty), and slap a Keep_alive_together_engraver on the containing
>> StaffGroup.
>> 
>> It's not really the same as counting all intervening staves, but it
>> would help a bit.
>
> I was thinking about that option… but, as you imply, it's not quite 
> sufficient.
>
> On the other hand, could you double-group it and get the same effect? i.e., 
>
>     \new Group <<
>         \new Marks
>         \new Group <<
>            \new Staff
>            \new Staff
>            ...
>         >>
>
> If the inner Group french-ed as normal (i.e., independent of Marks), and the 
> Marks was suicidal to/with the whole Group, that would work, right?

Possibly.  One would need to remove Vertical_axis_group_engravers as
required I think.

-- 
David Kastrup