Hi,

Let's say that I have a stylesheet that sets instrumentName values and
shortInstrumentName values for a bunch of contexts in the normal way:

    \context {
        \Staff
        ...
        instrumentName = \markup { Flute }
        shortInstrumentName = \markup { Fl. }
    }
    \context {
        \Staff
        ...
        instrumentName = \markup { Oboe }
        shortInstrumentName = \markup { Ob. }
    }
    ...

QUESTION: is there a way to have the shortInstrumentName values appear at
the start of the score (meaning that the instrumentName values will never
appear)?

The question looks pathological. (Why would you set a value for
instrumentName if you don't want instrumentName to appear in the score?)
But the motivation is as follows. I have a complex score that I've broken
into multiple chunks (meaning separate LilyPond files with separate score
blocks). All chunks \include the same stylesheet. But I want instrumentName
to appear at the start of only chunk 1 (because chunk 1 is the start of the
actual sore). For chunks 2, 3, ... I'd like shortInstrumentName to appear
at the start of each "score" (because each non-first "score" is actually
modeling subsequent parts of the one actual score).

I can't imagine that there would be a setting for this. But is there some
sort of Scheme wizardry that can be put at the beginning of each of the
non-first score chunks to say "set instrumentName to the value of
shortInstrumentName"?

That would be truly amazing.

Trevor.


-- 
Trevor Bača
trevorb...@gmail.com
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