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StaffGroup

Contains Staff or RhythmicStaff contexts. Adds a bracket on the left side, grouping the staves together. The bar lines of the contained staves are connected vertically. It can contain Staff, RhythmicStaff, GrandStaff, or Lyrics contexts.

This context creates the following grobs: Arpeggio, SpanBar, SystemStartBar, SystemStartBrace and SystemStartBracket.

This context sets the following properties:

• Set translator property systemStartDelimiter to 'SystemStartBracket
• Set translator property localKeySignature to '()

Context StaffGroup can contain FiguredBass, InnerStaffGroup, ChoirStaff, InnerChoirStaff, ChordNames, Lyrics, TabStaff, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, RhythmicStaff and Staff

This context is built from the following engravers:

Engraver_group_engraver

A group of engravers taken together

System_start_delimiter_engraver

Creates a system start delimiter (ie. SystemStart{Bar,Brace,Bracket} spanner

Properties (read)

systemStartDelimiter (symbol)

Which grob to make for the start of the system/staff?

This engraver creates the following grobs: SystemStartBar, SystemStartBrace and SystemStartBracket.

Output_property_engraver

Interpret Music of Output_property type, and apply a function to any Graphic objects that satisfies the predicate.

Music types accepted: layout-instruction

Span_arpeggio_engraver

Properties (read)

connectArpeggios (boolean)

If set, connect all arpeggios that are found. In this way, you can make arpeggios that cross staves.

This engraver creates the following grobs: Arpeggio.

Span_bar_engraver

This engraver makes cross-staff barlines: It catches all normal bar lines, and draws a single span-bar across them.

This engraver creates the following grobs: SpanBar.

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