Re: removing first system with partial bar

[Graham Percival]

On 8-Apr-06, at 6:56 PM, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote:

> Just wondering how I can remove "empty" staves of the first system of 
> a score when the first measure is a \partial.
>
> Because I can't use R to fill the partial bar (Lilypond makes me use r 
> explicitly, or complains about ), the measure is not really "empty", 
> and thus the traditional method doesn't eliminate the staff.

Really?  This works (although it gives a warning) for me:

\version "2.8.1"
\layout {
\context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }
}
{
<<
  { \partial 4 c'4 c'1 \break c'1 }
  {
    \override Score.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
    R4 R1 a4 a a a }
>>
}