Re: Newly defined Voice context and RemoveEmptyStaffContext

[Mats Bengtsson]

See the "Known issues and warnings" of section 5.1.4 "Changing default 
context settings" in the Notation Reference.
If you really want to understand what happens, it may also help
to look at the definition of \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in the
file ly/engraver-init.ly.

  /Mats

Roman Stawski wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> It seems that if I create a new context based on the Voice context, it
> won't play with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext at all. Try the snippet below
> as is, and then uncomment the commented block. A warning is generated
> and lyrics are no longer rendered. Any ideas on how to get this to
> work?
>
>
> - - - - - [START]
> \version "2.11.60"
> \layout { ragged-tight = ##t }
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \name MainVoice
>     \type "Engraver_group"
>     \alias Voice
>     \consists Grob_pq_engraver
>     \consists Note_heads_engraver
>     \consists Stem_engraver
>   }
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \accepts MainVoice
>   }
>
> % If the block below is uncommented, then we get the error "warning: cannot
> % find Voice `t'" and lyrics are not rendered.
>   %{
>   \context {
>     \RemoveEmptyStaffContext
>   }
>   %}
> }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Staff { \new MainVoice = "t" \relative c' { c4 d e f }}
>     \new Lyrics {\lyricsto "t" \lyricmode { Can you see me? }}
>   >>
> }
>
> - - - - - [END]
>
> A secondary question is how to create a context that 'inherits' all
> the engravers/performers in the context it aliases. In the above
> example for instance, I'd like to add the \consists of the forty odd
> components used by Voice without have to type them by hand, and
> without needing to recheck them for every new version of Lilypond I
> install.
>
> Thanks for any help forthcoming
>
> Roman
>
>
>
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