Re: RemoveEmptyStaves and the ambitus_engraver

[Janek Warchoł]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Roman Stawski <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm not top posting.
>
> It seems that \RemoveEmptyStaves doesn't play very well with the
> ambitus_engraver.
>
> In this example, I'm trying to get the treble staff removed in the
> first two systems, and appear with an ambitus on the third.
>
> It is removed correctly in the first system. But reappears in the
> second. If I comment out the line (*), then the staves are removed as
> needed, but the ambitus is too of course.

Interesting.  If i were you, i'd place the skips inside MainSequence
and have the ambitus appear at the very beginning, and keep that first
system alive (which makes
some sense in my opinion):

  \new Staff \relative c' {
    \clef treble
    \new MainSequence {
      \skip 1*8
      \repeat unfold 2 { e1 e'1 }
    }
  }

hth,
Janek Warchoł