Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Thomas,

> I doubt that this new default behavior reflects common practice, though

As a pianist, I can tell you it absolutely does reflect common engraving 
practice for piano staves: It is a very rare piano score (perhaps 1/10 of 1%) 
that contains only a single staff. That is precisely the reason 
Keep_alive_together_engraver was [fairly recently] added to Lilypond.

Of course, engraving practice is different for other multi-staff instruments 
(e.g., harp often uses a single staff) — but in that case, you can simply 
define a custom context (e.g., HarpStaff) in which the 
Keep_alive_together_engraver is removed by default.

Hope this helps!
Kieren.