Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-04 Thread Keith OHara
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:25:12 -0800, wrote: hideStaff = \set Staff.keepAliveInterfaces = #'() showStaff = \unset Staff.keepAliveInterfaces Whom should I talk to to suggest putting getting these tweaks predefined in the "shipping" installation of Lilypond and documented in the

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/12/4 Trevor Daniels : > > nothingwaver...@gmail.com wrote Tuesday, December 04, 2012 4:25 PM > >> Whom should I talk to to suggest putting getting these tweaks predefined in >> the "shipping" installation of Lilypond and documented in the official >> Lilypond manual? >> >> I venture to think

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
nothingwaver...@gmail.com wrote Tuesday, December 04, 2012 4:25 PM > Whom should I talk to to suggest putting getting these tweaks predefined in > the "shipping" installation of Lilypond and documented in the official > Lilypond manual? > > I venture to think this tweak is a useful enough an

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-04 Thread nothingwavering
NOTE: follow-up question attached Thank you, Keith and Wim, for responding to my posting. It turns out that Keith's idea of using keepAliveInterfaces was just what I needed. I had browsed the internals reference a bit to look for something like that and had happened across keepAliveInterfaces

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-03 Thread Keith OHara
gmail.com> writes: > I'm familiar with the instruction > \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves } > Is there a way to tell Lilypond to stop showing a non-empty staff > (that contains notes) and reclaim its space after the next line break? There is a variable called keepAliveInterfaces

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-03 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Christopher,I'm not sure if this example matches your need, but it is a thing I once crafted for a special piece. It shows an ossia stave in a different color and size. Starting at some point and ending after I don't need it anymore. But alas not on a line break, don't know how to do thatCom

removing non-empty staves

2012-12-03 Thread nothingwavering
Greetings. I'm a long-time user of lilypond. I love it and have used it for my massive solo pipe organ transcription of a 30-minute movement of a symphony scored for large orchestra, so I feel like I know my way around Lilypond at an intermediate level. I don't really delve deeply into the Sc