Re: Vertical positioning of temporary staves

[Trevor Daniels]

Mats Bengtsson wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 1:09 PM
> 
>> Using the code below, I get the temporary staves vertically offset, as shown
>> in the attached image. It appears that they are avoiding each others'
>> non-existent horizontal extent. Is there any was of lining them up
>> vertically?
> This is an old (well, less than 10 years, but still) favorite bug, see 
> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=127

Yes, I had to use the following workaround in the satb.ly template to ensure 
none of the contexts die for the entire duration of the piece:

I form satb-spacers with

#(define satb-spacers (skip-of-length satb-AllChoirMusic))

and then include this in parallel in every notation context.

You need
    \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##t
    \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t
in every staff group too, of course.

Trevor