<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Deeper nested staff groups - GNU LilyPond Notation Reference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="GNU LilyPond Notation Reference"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.11"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Displaying-staves.html#Displaying-staves" title="Displaying staves"> <link rel="prev" href="Grouping-staves.html#Grouping-staves" title="Grouping staves"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999--2007 by the authors Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. 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These contexts create a bracket next to the original bracket of their parent staff group. <p>An <code>InnerStaffGroup</code> is treated similarly to a <code>StaffGroup</code>; bar lines are connected between each stave within the context: <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { c2 c | c2 c } \new InnerStaffGroup << \new Staff { g2 g | g2 g } \new Staff { e2 e | e2 e } >> >> </pre> <p> <a href="../4f/lily-e3b3f904.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../4f/lily-e3b3f904.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Bar lines are <em>not</em> connected between staves of an <code>InnerChoirStaff</code>, just like a <code>ChoirStaff</code>: <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff { c2 c | c2 c } \new InnerChoirStaff << \new Staff { g2 g | g2 g } \new Staff { e2 e | e2 e } >> \new Staff { c1 | c1 } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../0d/lily-0bcc570e.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../0d/lily-0bcc570e.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">Selected Snippets</h5> <p><em>Nesting staves</em> <p>The property <code>systemStartDelimiterHierarchy</code> can be used to make more complex nested staff groups. The command <code>\set StaffGroup.systemStartDelimiterHierarchy</code> takes an alphabetical list of the number of staves produced. Before each staff a system start delimiter can be given. It has to be enclosed in brackets and takes as much staves as the brackets enclose. Elements in the list can be omitted, but the first bracket takes always the complete number of staves. The possibilities are <code>SystemStartBar</code>, <code>SystemStartBracket</code>, <code>SystemStartBrace</code>, and <code>SystemStartSquare</code>. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \new StaffGroup \relative c'' << \set StaffGroup.systemStartDelimiterHierarchy = #'(SystemStartSquare (SystemStartBrace (SystemStartBracket a (SystemStartSquare b) ) c ) d) \new Staff { c1 } \new Staff { c1 } \new Staff { c1 } \new Staff { c1 } \new Staff { c1 } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../c3/lily-19875a03.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../c3/lily-19875a03.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">See also</h5> <p class="indent"> <p>Notation Reference: <a href="Grouping-staves.html#Grouping-staves">Grouping staves</a>, <a href="Instrument-names.html#Instrument-names">Instrument names</a>. <p>Snippets: <a href="../../../input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Staff-notation.html#Staff-notation">Staff notation</a>. <p>Internals Reference: <a name="index-InnerStaffGroup-1375"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/InnerStaffGroup.html#InnerStaffGroup">InnerStaffGroup</a>, <a name="index-StaffGroup-1376"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/StaffGroup.html#StaffGroup">StaffGroup</a>, <a name="index-InnerChoirStaff-1377"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/InnerChoirStaff.html#InnerChoirStaff">InnerChoirStaff</a>, <a name="index-ChoirStaff-1378"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/ChoirStaff.html#ChoirStaff">ChoirStaff</a>, <a name="index-SystemStartBar-1379"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/SystemStartBar.html#SystemStartBar">SystemStartBar</a>, <a name="index-SystemStartBrace-1380"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/SystemStartBrace.html#SystemStartBrace">SystemStartBrace</a>, <a name="index-SystemStartBracket-1381"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/SystemStartBracket.html#SystemStartBracket">SystemStartBracket</a>, <a name="index-SystemStartSquare-1382"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/SystemStartSquare.html#SystemStartSquare">SystemStartSquare</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Grouping-staves.html#Grouping-staves">Grouping staves</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Displaying-staves.html#Displaying-staves">Displaying staves</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> </BODY></html>