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Use square bracket at the start of a staff group

The system start delimiter SystemStartSquare can be used by setting it …

…for custom crescendo text spanners. The spanners should start on the first note of the measure. One has to use -\mycresc, otherwise the spanner start will rather be assigned to the next note.

…mycresc = #(define-music-function (mymarkup) (markup?) (make-music 'CrescendoEvent 'span-direction START 'span-type 'text 'span-text mymarkup)) mydecresc = #(define-music-function (mymarkup) (markup?) (make-music 'DecrescendoEvent 'span-direction START 'span-type 'text 'span-text mymarkup)) \relative c' { c4-\mycresc "…

Hiding accidentals on tied notes at the start of a new system

…to hide accidentals on tied notes at the start of a new system.

Start TrillSpanner with UpPrall glyph

%- Start a Trill Spanner with UpPrall %- Solution by …

Double bar line as system start

A double bar line as system start may be printed as demonstrated here.

…indented line can arrange for that line to start a new score, as in LSR966 . That may …

…a manual \break to ensure application at line start % - misbehave if called more than once at … …set-X-offset! (lambda (margin-grob) ; move grob across to line start (let* ( (old (ly:grob-property-data margin-grob 'X-offset)) (new (lambda (grob) (+ (… …LeftEdge.X-extent = #(cons narrowing narrowing) % discard line start region of staff and reassemble left-margin elements \once \…

…is given in the comment block at the start of the snippet code. For the Lilypond Snippet …

…Finger_glide_engraver ("warning: No finger found to start a glide, ignoring"), but you can remove those … …ORPHAN GLIDE (ly:warning "No pedal articulation found to start a glide, ignoring.")) ((and endfoot (not glide)) ;; This …

Forcing rehearsal marks to start from a given letter or number

…g g | g2 } global = { \key g \major } \score { % Start score << \new PianoStaff << % Start pianostaff \new Staff << % Start … …voiceOne \TenorMusic >> % End Voice = "Tenor" \new Voice = "Bass" << % Start Voice = "Bass" \Timeline \voiceTwo \BassMusic >> % End Voice = "Bass" >> % … …layout { \context { \Score caesuraType = #'((bar-line . "||")) fineBarType = "||" } } \paper { % Start paper block indent = 0 % don't indent first …

…at the end of the line and must start with a percent sign (%). All other characters not …

…add comments at the end of the line. Start them with a percent sign (%). addFingering = #(define-music-function (…