Re: Keep alive together - call for use cases

[Mark Knoop]

At 18:02 on 19 Aug 2016, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>I recently typeset a concerto grosso from the baroque period, where
>the solo and tutti parts are identical during long sections and then
>they differ for some bars, every here and there. When entering the
>parts, I used tags to handle the differences so producing the separate
>parts works without problem. However, in the conductors score, I would
>prefer to only use a single stave per instrument when the solo and
>tutti play in unison, but individual staves when they differ. I
>managed to handle this using remove-layer as long as there's only a
>single instrument group that contains and occasional solo part, but if
>for example both violin 1 and violin 2 have a solo plus a tutti, then
>I didn't manage to get it to work correctly. The following example
>shows my current attempt. As can be seen, the split between solo and
>tutti parts happens both for violin 1 and 2 as soon as one of them is
>split. For example, in the second score line, I would like to see Vi I
>solo, Vi I tutti but only one stave with Vi II.

Hi Mats,

How does the attached look to you? Note I have moved the
Keep_alive_together_engraver to the GrandStaff level so that the vln I
and vln II groups can work independently. The problem now is making the
system start braces cooperate.

-- 
Mark Knoop

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