Re: How to insert an "auxiliary" staff for divisi strings?

[David Kastrup]

Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I'm typesetting an orchestral score and need to insert an "auxiliary"
> staff for some strings in some places. The situation is this: in
> general, the 2nd violins occupy only one staff, even if they play
> divisi; however, in one instance (a passage of a few bars) the parts
> of each subgroup are too different to be put on one single staff, so
> it would be necessary to put them on two. Is there a possibility to
> insert such an auxiliary staff in some form in the score?
> I could of course define a "second" 2nd violin system as an
> independent "instrument" at the outset, but it seems that it would
> appear as such on the first page,

That would be a matter of setting the context property remove-first to
##t.

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David Kastrup