Re: Failure of \RemoveEmptyStaves

[Keith OHara]

obscureed <muggins_senior <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I'm trying to transcribe songs with piano accompaniment, including a piano
> intro.  The melody stave is not needed during the intro, but the
> \RemoveEmptyStaves command seems not to remove it:

> Interestingly, the new output from slumber.ly (after
> convert-ly) correctly removes the melody line from the second line of the 
> intro, but not the first. 

\RemoveEmptyStaves now begins to take effect on the /second/ system, because
in cases like orchestral scores we want to see each instrument staff on the
first page, even if some are empty.

The option to remove an empty staff on the first line is (note the \Staff):

  \layout { \context { \Staff 
    \RemoveEmptyStaves 
    \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
  } }