Re: staff spacing

[Mats Bengtsson]

At the moment, it seems that LilyPond thinks of the _ or "" as a
graphical object with a rhythmic position, and that's exactly the
kind of objects that prevents the stave from being removed.

We send it as a feature request to bug-lilypond to make LilyPond
smarter in this respect.


   /Mats

Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > When you have a score line with empty lyrics, it is removed completely
> > meaning that it doesn't occupy any space.
>
>
> Alas, this seems (to me) not to work when the lyrics aren't "empty" as
> much as they are _s or ""s (using \addlyrics) in a voice that just
> follows the common lyrics for a while.  (This is common in 2-staff
> choir music, where the lyrics only differ partially between voices.)
>
> Any idea of how to get the rid of the space allocated for
> not-empty-enough lyrics?