Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

[James Harkins]

At Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:23:00 -0400,
address@hidden wrote:
> From: PMA
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)
> 
> I have a 40-bar LilyPond piano score notated in
> 3-staff systems (to accomodate a leaping-over
> left hand).  Occasionally one staff in a system,
> either the middle or upper, contains rests only.
> 
> I want to exclude such staves from the output,
> and so have defined my \score block as follows,
> following Notation & Snippets Ref. suggestions.
> 
> \score {
>    \new PianoStaff <<
> 
> P.S.  My LilyPond version is 2.13.32.  Also,
>          "GrandStaff" yields the same result.

I can confirm that GrandStaff handles \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in the way that 
you expect, in lilypond 2.14.1. PianoStaff didn't do it for me, but when I 
switched it to GrandStaff, empty staves vanished and it put a brace at the left 
margin too.

hjh


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