On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:50:32PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Downes"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:46 PM
Subject: Hiding or delaying new staffs
>I have a situation I feel there should be an answer to but cannot
>find it. I write arrangements which start with, say, 8 bars intro
>during which , again say, up to 4 front line instruments are doing
>nothing. I either want to suppress their staffs during the intro
>or not create them till the end of the intro. I can suppress the
>staff itself but not the clef, time sig & key sig.
>
>Steve
To get rid of all except piano staffs which only contain Whole
Measure Rests, use:
\layout {
\context {
\RemoveEmptyStaffContext
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
}
}
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Phil Holmes
Thanks for your very prompt reply. I had already done this & there are
2 problems with it:-
1) It leaves the clef, key sig, & time sig where the staff was at the
beginning
2) When I start to use the staff 8 bars later it puts it at the
beginning of the intro. If I pad the 8 bars out with R1 * 8 | or
s1 * 8 | it puts the staff back in.
So I'm back where I started.
Steve