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The object may be extended to larger sized by overriding their properties. The lyrics in this example have an extent of (-10,10), which is why they are spaced so widely.

A temporary ossia in an instrumental part may be printed using a separate, short staff. A simpler solution is also given: instantiate a full staff, and let RemoveEmptyStaffContext take out the unused parts.

When entering partially typeset music (i.e. for students to be completed by hand), you may need the spacing that correspond to the timing of notes: all measures have same length, etc. It can be implemented by adding an invisible staff with a lot of fast notes.

You can engrave music using just Scheme expressions. Although those expressions reflect the inner mechanism of LilyPond, they are rather clumsy to use, so avoid them, if possible.

Engravers can be removed one by one. Here, the time signature and bar lines have been removed.

Mensural notes may also have note heads.

The \applyOutput command allows the tuning of any layout object, in any context. It requires a Scheme function with three arguments.

For educational purposes, a staff line can be thickened (e.g., the middle line, or to emphasize the line of the G clef). This can be achieved by adding extra lines very close to the line that should be emphasized, using the line-positions property of the StaffSymbol object.

You can have a name for the whole GrandStaff in addition to individual Staffs.

Vaticana ligature uses four staff lines, special clef, and calligraphic notes.