Re: unhiding a hidden staff at the NEXT line break (instead of previous line break)

[David Kastrup]

Keith OHara <address@hidden> writes:

> <nothingwavering <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Anyone know how I can get Lilypond to unhide a staff at the NEXT
>> line break?
>
> No.
>
> It looks like you have a part for a cello section with the form
>     unison  |A|  simple-divisi  |B|  complex-divisi
> where the complex-divisi music demands a separate staff for each part.
>
> If you put your wished-for \showStaffNextBreak at |A| then you would
> be assuming there is at least one line break between |A| and |B|.
>
> Placing your \showStaff at |B| on the two separate-part staves makes
> more sense.  But I do not see a way to stop the combined-part staff at
> the same linebreak where the seaparate-part staves need to begin.

Can you see whether taking
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3024> for a test
drive and overriding VerticalAxisGroup.dead-is-alive = ##t in the proper
context provides enough leverage for implementing this kind of thing?

-- 
David Kastrup