Re: Displaying a staff despite \removeEmptyStaves

[Anton Curl]

On 05/04/2015 21:58, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> You need to add multi-measure-rest-interface to the keepAliveInterfaces for 
> that staff.
>
> Here are the two bits of syntactic sugar I use:
>
> showMMRs = {
>    \set Staff.keepAliveInterfaces =
>      #'( rhythmic-grob-interface
>          multi-measure-rest-interface
>          lyric-interface
>          stanza-number-interface
>          percent-repeat-interface) }
> hideMMRs = \unset Staff.keepAliveInterfaces
>
> So put a \showMMRs in your music expression at the point where you want to 
> force that Staff context to appear (despite having \RemoveEmptyStaves active), 
> and put a \hideMMRs when you want it to return to “default” (i.e., the Staff 
> will disappear, if possible).
>
> Hope this helps!
> Kieren.
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>
> Kieren MacMillan, composer
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Thanks for the reply!

Your solution works with R1*4 for example, but not with s1*4.

I assume I have to add an *-interface, but I can't find which.

Anton Curl