Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 16:58 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:30 PM
> Subject: Hara Kiri staff behavior
> 
> 
> > I'm currently baffled by not finding the documentation for Hara Kiri
> > staffs. That is a staff that only has whole measure rests for a line is
> > dropped. I thought this was the default, and I thought I had looked it
> > up before, but now I can only find obscure (to me) references to
> > RemoveEmptyStaves and the hara kiri engraver
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/context-modification-identifiers#index-RemoveEmptyStaves
> >
> > which says
> > The following commands are defined for use as context modifications
> > within a \layout or \with block.
> >
> > RemoveEmptyStaves
> >
> >
> > This leaves me wondering what a "command" is in this context - what do I
> > write inside
> >
> > \layout { }
> >
> > to get the desired behavior? I dpn't even see anything in LSR for
> > this ...
> >
> > Richard Shann
> 
> Look in the index for the command \RemoveEmptyStaves

??? that is precisely the page quoted above???

Richard