If you wish to typeset |., etc, style spanbars on a ChoirStaff, you can add the span_bar_engraver, and instruct it to omit the |-style bars. In this example a new context, SemiChoirStaff, is created to achieve this.

Sometimes a glissando is written out in smaller notes. This example shows how to do this.

This snippet has been obsoleted by predefined markup commands, see 'Discant symbols' in the Notation Reference. It's still useful as a simple demonstration of how to combine symbols: the placement of the symbols added with \markup can be tweaked by changing the \translate-scaled arguments. \translate-scaled is used here rather than \translate in order to let the positioning of the symbol parts adapt to changes of font-size.

By overriding the 'style property of the Hairpin object, you can get nice contemporary crescendos and decrescendos.

When two (or more) voices on a staff share common rests, common engraving practice merges these rests into one. The following snippet takes care of that, automatically. Please note that multi-measure rests are not automatically combined.

Display ly file information in markup, including file name, file size, LilyPond version, date processed, time processed, time last modified, and the LilyPond command line.

The glyph of the breath mark can be tuned by overriding the text property of the BreathingSign layout object with any markup text.

Flat beams at a fixed position.

Taking LilyPond to a whole new level

This snippet is actually a set of advanced macros that provide some useful predefined commands. You can just copy the whole code, paste it in a separate file, named, for instance, 'book-titling.ily'; then just include it in your score and use the provided macros (see the end of the snippet description if you want an example of an actual score source file).

Using LilyPond to produce a whole book

This snippet allows you to create:

• a nice title page
• a table of contents
• some fancy page headers (with book and chapter titles)

The following commands are provided (in addition to LilyPond standard syntax)::

• \bookTitle string

  defines the book title, as it should appear in even page header

• \chapter string

  adds a page break and a big title, and a title in the TOC set the odd page header

• \section string

  adds a section title, and a title in the TOC

• \piece markup

  adds a piece title in the TOC

• \titledPiece markup

  adds a piece title in book body and in the TOC

• \useRehearsalNumbers boolean

  if set to 'true', adds rehearsal number before pieces

In this snippet, you will find the ready-to-use stylesheet (you may save it as a separate file named "book-titling.ily", and then include it in your scores), and at the bottom of the source code, a short example demonstrating some of these abilities.

Here are two functions to move dynamics easily. The first one moves the dynamics horizontally and drops / raises it closer to the staff if there's room. With the second one you can move the dynamics also vertically.