Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

[k-ohara5a5a]

On 2012/12/15 21:32:41, dak wrote:
> The "dead-is-alive"-thing had the
> advantage that even though I did not understand what I am
> working with, it was easy to make it behave as advertised.

"This reverses the decisions that the Hara_kiri_engraver makes."

This engraver removes empty staves, so reversing its decisions results
in printing staves only when empty.

> What you are saying now is that it is not really useful.

Maybe some perverse re-definition of 'empty' in user input could
profitably use the dead-is-alive behavior, but I could not find a way to
do so.

> Can you try coming up with some flag or flag combination that
> would be more useful without being considerably more complex?

I was thinking of something like
  https://codereview.appspot.com/6945064/
but I do not think it the added property.

https://codereview.appspot.com/6948058/