Re: Problem with Staff Grouping

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Dave Higgins" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with Staff Grouping


> What's happening is that part1 has a single staff and then splits into a
> divisi staff.  In that part's compilation, everything looks fine.
>
> I also have a part2 that does the same thing, single staff that splits
> into a divisi staff.
>
> The staves are out of order when I compile the score, as the layout
> description below indicates.
>
> I'm not saying the staff feature is broken, just my staff lines in the
> score are in the wrong places.

I think you'll find this is easiest by having all the staves present at all 
times, but hiding empty ones.  See

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#hiding-staves

and in particular, RemoveEmptyStaves and override 
VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t

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Phil Holmes