by default, the Instrument_name_engraver does not seem to be part of the
StaffGroup - so you have to add it yourself:
\layout {
\context {
\StaffGroup
\consists Instrument_name_engraver
} }
hth
Orm Finnendahl-3 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will
> use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a
> combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the
> name "Percussion 1" printed in front of the whole group, vertically
> centered and always printed throughout the score, even if some staffs
> are removed with the \RemoveEmptyStaffContext if they don't contain
> anything for some systems. Does somebody know about a way to
> accomplish that? I couldn't find anything in the docs or LSR (I also
> checked orchestrallily to no avail).
>
> I tried
>
> \set StaffGroup.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Perkussion 1" }
>
> but that doesn't print anything (although it doesn't complain
> either). Below is the code for one of the four percussion players with
> the name assigned to the top staff.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> --
> Orm
>
> \version "2.13.23"
>
> poneone = { {
> f4 a c' e' g'
> } }
>
> ponetwo = { {
> f4 a c' e' g'
> } }
> ponethreeup = { \relative c' {
> c4 e g b d
> } }
>
> ponethreedown = { \relative c {
> g b d f a
> } }
>
> \score {
> \new StaffGroup {
> <<
> \new Staff = poneone {
> \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Perkussion 1"
> "" }
> \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Perk. 1"
> "" }
> \clef percussion \poneone
> }
> \new Staff = ponetwo {
> \clef percussion \ponetwo
> }
> \new PianoStaff { <<
> \new Staff = ponethreeup {
> \ponethreeup
> }
> \new Staff = ponethreedown {
> \clef bass \ponethreedown
> }
> >> }
> >>
> }
> \layout {
> indent = 4\cm
> \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }
> }
> }
>
>
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