Re: Locally disable hiding of empty staves?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 30. August 2008 schrieb Alexander Kobel:
> Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> >> does anybody know whether/how it's possible to locally
> >> prevent staves from hiding troughout a part of the piece?
> >
> > See Neil's solution to the same question, which I posed almost exactly a
> > year ago:
> >     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-08/msg00366.html
>
> While this works perfectly, I still have one question left:
> Is it possible to "group" staves for this functionality; i. e., I want
> the choir staves to vanish if /all/ voices have rests, but if there's at
> least one voice singing, the complete choir staves should be there?

The same problem happens also with piano / organ / harp staves... AFAIK, there 
is no real solution for that problem. It's registered as feature request #442 
with lilypond's bug tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=442

Cheers,
Reinhold
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