Re: problem with \RemoveEmptyStaves

[Keith OHara]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 21:17:02 -0700, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > Thanks.  *Very* kludgy.
> >
> > No, not at all.
>
> But it is a *manual* solution,

Yep, but (after looking up 'kludgy' I see that) manual and kludgy are different 
things.

> What prevents Lilypond to do this automatically?  I want an option
> that staves are only removed if there are at least two systems on a
> page.  A second pass over the full score should be quite cheap, if
> really necessary, since line breaks are already done.

I think this could be done automatically, without a second pass, if the removal 
of empty staves were to just mark them as removable and as taking no space, 
inserting a step to put them back and figure their space requirements just 
after page-breaking.