Hi List,
I'm copying multiple movements into a single large score (its a collection of various works for liturgical use from the 18th Century: Magnificats, Psalm settings, and the like). Some movements have a brass/tympani section, others do not.
I want the movements without music for the extra group to output a "Tacet" markup in the parts, but not to show up in the score at all (as in, their staff would be hidden).
Each movement is a separate file, included in a master file. Each included file has a global variable defining key and time signature, a set of functions, a separate variable for music and lyrics, a "silent" voice (controlling line breaks, meter changes, tempo changes, etc.), and its own \score block for laying out all the voices.
Is there a way, in such a structure, to omit staves in certain movements, without changing the \score block that structures them?