Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

[Simon Albrecht]

On 07.11.2016 11:29, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Experience shows that
> > Lilypond won't print a rest shorter than 1/128 note, so maybe if I enter a
> > short enough silent rest Lilypond won't insert it at all in the score.
> LilyPond doesn't know about notes or rests shorter than 1/128. This is
> an arbitrary limitation into which I've also run occasionally.

That’s not true. LilyPond doesn’t have any _glyphs_ to represent notes 
or rests shorter than 1/128, but beamed notes work, and I don’t see why 
silent rests shouldn’t work as well. See
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_hundred_fifty-sixth_note#Even_shorter_notes> 
and
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-09/msg00213.html> :-)

Best, Simon