Re: Harakiri "prints" white space

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Héctor M. Monacci" <address@hidden> writes:

> In a Singing / Piano score, Harakiri is useful to hide the empty staves of
> the singing part. This is just what I was doing. But Lily 1.3.119 under
> Windows 2000 seems to "print" the white space that would be occupied with
> the empty Singing staff. So: 1) you don't really gain space on the page, and
> 2) this produces some ugly page composition problems, since white space and
> print become unbalanced. Lily 1.3.46 used to behave better in Harakiri: I
> got no ink on the paper for the empty staff, and no extra white space
> either.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this before? Is it a bug? Is there a way to solve it?

I think that what you want was discussed just this week on help-gnu-music:

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-music/2001-February/000403.html
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-music/2001-February/000405.html

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