Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved

2007-07-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ed, The man page refers to skips as "invisible rests". Is that not the case? It's probably just a semantic argument, but in my opinion, NO. [The docs should probably be changed to eliminate confusion.] A rest is a graphic object which appears on a staff to indicate the voice in questio

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Ravin
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:58:02AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >Aha! That works, but not quite as you described. I had to use "s" > >rests, otherwise the unwanted staff line still showed up. > > The first line will not show up if you: > 1. use R rests (which you really *should*, since "s

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved

2007-07-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ed, Aha! That works, but not quite as you described. I had to use "s" rests, otherwise the unwanted staff line still showed up. The first line will not show up if you: 1. use R rests (which you really *should*, since "s" is a skip not a rest!!); 2. include \context { \RemoveEmpty

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Ravin
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:33:38AM +0200, Tao Cumplido wrote: > The thing here is that you split your parts and in the score > block you create two piano staves whereas one is completely > sufficient. > the time signature appears because the staff with the melody line > begins after the line break.