Re: PianoStaff display problems

[Hans Forbrich]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 20:31, Ruven Gottlieb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I don't put anything in the lower staff of a PianoStaff, the lower
> staff won't be displayed. E.g. I just want to notate the treble part
> because I want to write the bass part in by hand because I'm working out
> chords.
>
> I tried putting the ending bar in the bass clef. No dice.
>
> I tried just putting in spacer rests, but that didn't work either. If
> that's all there is in the lower cleff, it won't display.
>
> I finally put in transparent notes, but the notes play via MIDI, so
> that's no good either.
>
> Seems that proper behavior ought to be that if I specified PianoStaff,
> both staves ought to print whether or not I put anything in both staves.
> The empty staff ought to be as long as the one with notes in it.

It almost sounds like you are using the 'suppress staff if nothing is on it' 
capability.  That is [generally] activated using a \translator clause in the 
score section.  Look for a statement like 

        \translator { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }   or 
        \translator { \HaraKiriStaffContext }

in your \score block and try commenting that out if you find it.

HTH
/Hans