Re: Divisi and unison staves, how to hide?

[Valentin Villenave]

2010/3/13 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng <address@hidden>:
>   At the beginning of the music, the 1st violin is divided into bracketed
> two parts to generate different harmonics. However, it becomes unis in the
> future, so I must prepare a separate violin I part. If I need to show all
> instruments at the beginning, then both violin I and the divided two parts
> are shown. If I use remove-empty = #f in all staves except violin I, then
> the result is ok. But all the other staves will never be hidden. I think
> Finale and Sibelius will not have this issue. How to solve this problem?

Greetings Haipeng,

You can just start your additional violin staff with

\new Staff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t }

This way you should obtain what you want (I think).

Cheers,
Valentin