Re: removing identical staves

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Helge,

Your problem is very similar to one that I will face [again] soon: I will be 
engraving a choir piece of mine in which there are S+A+T+B sections, SA+TB 
sections, and SATB ("choral unison") sections.

During that process, I'm hoping to perfect the methods available in Lilypond to 
handle the "unison/divisi" issue (which is quite common), and then present my 
findings in a whitepaper. I know that doesn't help you right now… so the best I 
can do is tell you that your main problem

> I could try to quote the first viola voice in the second to get the correct 
> notes in the first line. But I would prefer to write only one viola line at 
> first page. Further the count of measures could change when I change the 
> paper format.

can be solved fairly easily (e.g., 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-12/msg00065.html).

Hope this helps!
Kieren.